Meaning not yet researched.
Eh: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,768 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,768 in 2014; #7,325 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Eh in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,325 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #2,768.
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Eh: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,768 in 2014 · most boys in one year: 43 (2014).
In 2025, 11 US boys were named Eh, making it the 7,325th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,057 places from #6,268 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 14 boys named Eh in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,768, reached in 2014. That year also had the most boys given the name: 43. For comparison, it was #3,608 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Eh in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #4,560, reached in 2016. That year also had the most girls given the name: 31. For comparison, it was #7,067 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Eh in 19 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2007 with 6 babies. In all, 704 US babies have been given the name, 39% of them girls and 61% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 518 babies named Eh.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 210 US boys were named Eh; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 42. In 2025 that was about 1 in 155,280 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Io, Ia and Eua are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Io (226), Ia (160), Eua (23), Iah (15), Ea (11), Ii (5), Yy (5), Ehi (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Eh in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 11 | #7,325 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,946 | 14 | #6,268 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,539 | 12 | #7,013 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,676 | 17 | #5,499 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,142 | 17 | #5,397 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,381 | 19 | #4,906 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,292 | 23 | #4,375 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,882 | 26 | #4,026 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,110 | 42 | #2,853 |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,560 | 29 | #3,712 |
| 2015 | 17 | #7,067 | 30 | #3,608 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,932 | 43 | #2,768 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,702 | 33 | #3,286 |
| 2012 | 29 | #4,871 | 33 | #3,321 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,319 | 28 | #3,718 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,451 | 24 | #4,147 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,556 | 10 | #7,867 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,947 | 15 | #5,848 |
| 2007 | — | — | 6 | #11,336 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).