Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Elim” in the USA?

Number of people named “Elim” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Elim” 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 “Elim” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Elim” by birth year

This chart shows how “Elim” 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
1997 5 0.000001379 5 100%
2000 5 0.000001323 5 -100%
2001 5 0.000001336 5 100%
2002 5 0.000001338 5 100%
2003 6 0.000001578 6 -100%
2004 16 0.000004187 7 9 -13%
2005 6 0.000001561 6 -100%
2006 5 0.000001264 5 -100%
2007 10 0.000002501 5 5 0%
2008 20 0.000005088 10 10 0%
2009 10 0.000002618 5 5 0%
2010 21 0.000005682 11 10 5%
2011 20 0.000005468 8 12 -20%
2012 29 0.000007929 10 19 -31%
2013 19 0.000005212 8 11 -16%
2014 30 0.000008094 13 17 -13%
2015 31 0.000008376 10 21 -35%
2016 35 0.00000954 11 24 -37%
2017 27 0.00000755 11 16 -19%
2018 25 0.000007111 7 18 -44%
2019 24 0.000006915 10 14 -17%
2020 33 0.000009879 9 24 -45%
2021 33 0.00000974 12 21 -27%
2022 29 0.000008572 11 18 -24%
2023 28 0.000008456 13 15 -7%
2024 39 0.000011717 14 25 -28%

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