Elton
About 21,553 American babies have been named Elton since 1880, most of them around 1920. In 2025 it ranked 2,304th. About 9,900 Eltons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 53.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Elton boys named Elton
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 21,553
- Estimated living today
- 9,900
- Median age today
- 53
- Peak year
- 1920
- Best rank
- 281st
- Rank in 2025
- 2,304th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 200 / 21,353
How old the living Eltons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 21,553 babies given the name since 1880, about 9,900 are alive — 46 in every hundred. Roughly 1,200 of them are children and 3,500 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1972 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Old English
From a number of sources, including:.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Eltons
- Elton John (born 1947)British singer, songwriter and musician
- Elton Mayo (1880–1949)Australian psychologist and sociologist
- Elton Brand (born 1979)American basketball player
- Élton Rodrigues Brandão (born 1985)Brazilian association football player
- Elton Dean (1945–2006)British saxophonist
- Elton Chigumbura (born 1986)Zimbabwean cricketer
People named Elton with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Elton is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Elton is most concentrated in Louisiana (6.0×), Mississippi (3.6×), Arkansas (2.6×), North Carolina (2.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1920
The most popular boys’ names the year Elton peaked:
Elton elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sweden boys | Elton | 3,661 | 38th |
| France boys | Elton | 220 | 1,771st |
| England and Wales boys | Elton | 188 | 1,282nd |
| Switzerland boys | Elton | 138 | 501st |
| Ireland boys | Elton | 49 | 200th |
| Belgium boys | Elton | 15 | 1,066th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Elton: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Elton | 72 | 0.006% | 476th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Elton | 63 | 0.014% | 261st |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Elton | 3 | 0.005% | 195th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Elton is most concentrated in Vaud, where 0.02% of children were given it – 30 of them.
Elton among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Elton | 238 | 290 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Elton against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.