Elan
4
Babies in 2024
-50%
10-year change
2011
Peak · 12
-33%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Elan
Elan has been falling out of fashion as a UK boy's name. In 2024, 4 boys were registered with the name in England & Wales — down 50% on a decade earlier.
Elan reached its peak in 2011, when 12 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #1,788 for UK boys that year. That's roughly 33% of the peak — registrations have thinned out since.
Across 27 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 156 boys have been officially registered with the name Elan in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 67 boys were registered with the name, starting from 8 in 2014 and ending at 4 in 2024.