Eldred
Eldred is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 529th, in 1917.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1921122 births
- Best rank
- #529in 1917
- Since 1882
- 4,040people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,746 boys have been named Eldred in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 122 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 122 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1929, and the 1920s alone account for 27%. It has spent 42 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 294 girls have also been given it, 7.3% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Eldred | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 18 | |
| 1890s | 38 | |
| 1900s | 72 | |
| 1910s | 722 | |
| 1920s | 1,028 | |
| 1930s | 597 | |
| 1940s | 342 | |
| 1950s | 331 | |
| 1960s | 250 | |
| 1970s | 151 | |
| 1980s | 105 | |
| 1990s | 62 | |
| 2000s | 24 | |
| 2010s | 6 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Eldred was the 572nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1921 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Eldred
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Elwinpeak 1923
- Orvilpeak 1921
- Harlandpeak 1922
- Elwynpeak 1924
- Cletuspeak 1922
- Foypeak 1921
- Arvelpeak 1921
- Bufordpeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.