Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1992. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yeltsin through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 50
- 50 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1993
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #10,644 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,644 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 1993.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Yeltsin’s family of names
In English usage, Yeltsin as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the French form Eltsine. In English usage, Yeltsin as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Catalan form IELTSIN. In English usage, Yeltsin as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Hungarian form JELCIN.
The ring: across languages.
Around the world
Yeltsin has relatives in 25 languages. Lines run from its Russian roots to each of them.
Across languages 23
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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