How Many People Are Named Elain?
people named Elain are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 1,726,186 people in the US has this name
Based on 260 babies named Elain in Social Security records from 1918 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
11 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Means "fawn" in Welsh.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Elain in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Elain alive today is about 54 years old, and 60% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 36 and 70 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Elain first appears in the records in 1918 and was given most often in 1947, to 11 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.
Babies given the name each year, 1918 to 2024
🏆 Rank History
Elain has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #2,985, in 1929.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #2,985 (1929) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #5,422 in the 1960s |
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