How popular is “Elian” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Elian” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

This chart shows how the popularity of “Elian” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Elian” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

This chart shows how “Elian” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1988	5	0.000001353	5		100%
1991	7	0.000001797	7		100%
1996	5	0.000001371		5	-100%
1999	23	0.000006227		23	-100%
2000	583	0.000154237	5	578	-98%
2001	271	0.000072394		271	-100%
2002	206	0.000055105		206	-100%
2003	178	0.000046814		178	-100%
2004	207	0.000054175		207	-100%
2005	213	0.000055399		213	-100%
2006	189	0.000047773	5	184	-95%
2007	238	0.000059534	9	229	-92%
2008	267	0.000067927		267	-100%
2009	247	0.000064657		247	-100%
2010	273	0.000073869		273	-100%
2011	202	0.000055225		202	-100%
2012	258	0.000070543	5	253	-96%
2013	312	0.000085581		312	-100%
2014	362	0.00009767	8	354	-96%
2015	365	0.000098624		365	-100%
2016	450	0.000122659		450	-100%
2017	486	0.000135899	8	478	-97%
2018	776	0.000220712	5	771	-99%
2019	883	0.000254398	11	872	-98%
2020	886	0.000265224	9	877	-98%
2021	890	0.000262696		890	-100%
2022	1139	0.00033667	11	1128	-98%
2023	1494	0.000451196	7	1487	-99%
2024	1503	0.000451555	8	1495	-99%

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