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How popular is “Elias” in the USA?

Number of people named “Elias” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Elias” 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.

Popularity of “Elias” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Elias” by birth year

This chart shows how “Elias” 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.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 65 0.000322606 65 -100%
1881 41 0.000212779 41 -100%
1882 57 0.000257298 57 -100%
1883 44 0.000202815 44 -100%
1884 48 0.000197157 48 -100%
1885 60 0.000249114 60 -100%
1886 41 0.000160585 41 -100%
1887 34 0.000137434 34 -100%
1888 24 0.000080141 24 -100%
1889 36 0.000124591 36 -100%
1890 36 0.000119442 36 -100%
1891 24 0.000083719 24 -100%
1892 38 0.000113645 38 -100%
1893 35 0.000107618 35 -100%
1894 36 0.000106292 36 -100%
1895 29 0.000082616 29 -100%
1896 28 0.000078325 28 -100%
1897 24 0.000069173 24 -100%
1898 32 0.000083889 32 -100%
1899 20 0.000058956 20 -100%
1900 23 0.000051082 23 -100%
1901 17 0.00004916 17 -100%
1902 21 0.000054301 21 -100%
1903 20 0.000052466 20 -100%
1904 26 0.000064439 26 -100%
1905 29 0.000068409 29 -100%
1906 18 0.000042012 18 -100%
1907 32 0.00006876 32 -100%
1908 40 0.000081858 40 -100%
1909 28 0.000054771 28 -100%
1910 34 0.000057558 34 -100%
1911 45 0.000069846 45 -100%
1912 97 0.000098172 97 -100%
1913 117 0.000102892 117 -100%
1914 111 0.000078371 111 -100%
1915 114 0.000062213 114 -100%
1916 163 0.000084263 163 -100%
1917 154 0.000076741 154 -100%
1918 141 0.000064944 141 -100%
1919 168 0.000079612 168 -100%
1920 168 0.000074249 168 -100%
1921 150 0.000064253 150 -100%
1922 162 0.000070768 162 -100%
1923 162 0.000070359 162 -100%
1924 180 0.000075579 180 -100%
1925 193 0.000082715 193 -100%
1926 207 0.000090161 207 -100%
1927 185 0.000079763 185 -100%
1928 181 0.000080055 181 -100%
1929 178 0.000081198 178 -100%
1930 177 0.000079612 5 172 -94%
1931 149 0.000070804 149 -100%
1932 145 0.000068678 145 -100%
1933 146 0.00007302 5 141 -93%
1934 128 0.000061633 128 -100%
1935 130 0.000062204 130 -100%
1936 116 0.000055834 116 -100%
1937 112 0.000052566 112 -100%
1938 124 0.000056043 124 -100%
1939 138 0.000062629 138 -100%
1940 103 0.00004473 103 -100%
1941 138 0.00005664 138 -100%
1942 111 0.000040632 111 -100%
1943 108 0.000038263 108 -100%
1944 118 0.000043865 118 -100%
1945 130 0.000049003 130 -100%
1946 101 0.000031609 101 -100%
1947 140 0.000038864 140 -100%
1948 133 0.000038523 133 -100%
1949 145 0.00004161 145 -100%
1950 163 0.000046527 163 -100%
1951 157 0.00004262 157 -100%
1952 164 0.000043181 164 -100%
1953 160 0.000041519 160 -100%
1954 165 0.00004145 165 -100%
1955 144 0.000035865 144 -100%
1956 151 0.000036623 5 146 -93%
1957 143 0.00003403 143 -100%
1958 151 0.000036527 151 -100%
1959 155 0.000037278 155 -100%
1960 170 0.000040926 170 -100%
1961 190 0.000045868 190 -100%
1962 176 0.000043614 176 -100%
1963 187 0.000047244 187 -100%
1964 182 0.000046815 182 -100%
1965 169 0.000046615 169 -100%
1966 170 0.000048912 170 -100%
1967 161 0.000047424 161 -100%
1968 165 0.000048839 165 -100%
1969 204 0.0000587 204 -100%
1970 226 0.000062664 226 -100%
1971 222 0.000064679 222 -100%
1972 254 0.000080815 254 -100%
1973 233 0.000077232 233 -100%
1974 310 0.000101974 310 -100%
1975 312 0.000103332 5 307 -97%
1976 317 0.000104472 6 311 -96%
1977 371 0.000116795 5 366 -97%
1978 365 0.000115002 8 357 -96%
1979 375 0.000112714 375 -100%
1980 385 0.000111772 385 -100%
1981 396 0.000114472 396 -100%
1982 405 0.000115452 405 -100%
1983 392 0.000113186 392 -100%
1984 350 0.000100322 350 -100%
1985 428 0.000119918 428 -100%
1986 422 0.000118637 422 -100%
1987 519 0.000143942 7 512 -97%
1988 554 0.000149931 6 548 -98%
1989 648 0.000168555 5 643 -98%
1990 666 0.000168502 666 -100%
1991 707 0.000181502 707 -100%
1992 698 0.000181711 698 -100%
1993 776 0.00020582 5 771 -99%
1994 812 0.000218417 812 -100%
1995 894 0.000244119 5 889 -99%
1996 926 0.000253894 7 919 -98%
1997 1042 0.000287389 8 1034 -98%
1998 1140 0.000309934 1140 -100%
1999 1229 0.000332714 9 1220 -99%
2000 1408 0.000372496 5 1403 -99%
2001 1526 0.000407652 8 1518 -99%
2002 1575 0.000421316 1575 -100%
2003 1718 0.00045183 7 1711 -99%
2004 1766 0.000462192 6 1760 -99%
2005 2121 0.000551648 5 2116 -100%
2006 2163 0.000546738 2163 -100%
2007 2367 0.000592093 5 2362 -100%
2008 2529 0.000643403 7 2522 -99%
2009 2486 0.000650756 2486 -100%
2010 2838 0.000767911 9 2829 -99%
2011 2993 0.000818253 2993 -100%
2012 3234 0.000884243 6 3228 -100%
2013 3498 0.000959495 3498 -100%
2014 3786 0.001021483 5 3781 -100%
2015 4109 0.001110267 10 4099 -100%
2016 4492 0.001224413 6 4486 -100%
2017 4931 0.00137884 4931 -100%
2018 5357 0.001523651 9 5348 -100%
2019 5727 0.001649989 7 5720 -100%
2020 5997 0.001795199 7 5990 -100%
2021 6360 0.001877242 11 6349 -100%
2022 6741 0.001992531 13 6728 -100%
2023 7010 0.00211706 7 7003 -100%
2024 7660 0.002301336 7 7653 -100%

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