Eldridge

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Eldridge is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 10 births. Its best rank was 424th, in 1894.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 100.00% of boys
Peak year: 1924120 births
Best rank: #424in 1894
Since 1880: 5,241people given the name

Babies named Eldridge, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

5,241 boys have been named Eldridge in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 120 births.

The name has all but left use: 10 births in 2024, against 120 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1939, and the 1920s alone account for 19%. It has spent 76 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Eldridge
1880s	85
1890s	108
1900s	139
1910s	655
1920s	1,004
1930s	675
1940s	639
1950s	559
1960s	419
1970s	396
1980s	200
1990s	147
2000s	91
2010s	78
2020s	46

In 1924, its biggest year

Eldridge was the 582nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1924 were Robert, John, William, James and Charles. See all of 1924.

Names that rose and fell with Eldridge

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.