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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Elwin

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

#4,907

up +1,656 places

2025 births

20

up +7 births

All-time births

5,176

0% of them in 2025

More common than

96%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1923
147 births
Best rank
#462
in 1914
First recorded
1882
#870 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1940
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
139 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 1923147#502Peak
  2. 1926145#503
  3. 1921144#516
  4. 1922141#521
  5. 1924135#545

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #462 in 1914 · peak births 147 in 1923

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 100% boys■ 0% girls

5,176 boys · 5 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Elwin has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.