Meaning not yet researched.
Elden: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 36 in 2025. Its best rank was #496 in 1934.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #496 in 1934; #3,264 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Elden in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,264 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1934, at #496.
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Elden: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 36 boys in 2025. Peak: #496 in 1934 · most boys in one year: 141 (1924).
In 2025, 36 US boys were named Elden, making it the 3,264th most common boys’ name of the year, down 294 places from #2,970 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 42 boys named Elden in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #496, reached in 1934. The most boys given the name in a single year was 141, in 1924. For comparison, it was #3,040 in 2015 and #992 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Elden in 133 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1884 with 6 babies. In all, 5,932 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,268 babies named Elden.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 399 US boys were named Elden; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 46. In 2025 that was about 1 in 47,447 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Eldon (26,157 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Elden 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 | — | — | 36 | #3,264 |
| 2024 | — | — | 42 | #2,970 |
| 2023 | — | — | 35 | #3,365 |
| 2022 | — | — | 43 | #2,930 |
| 2021 | — | — | 41 | #2,989 |
| 2020 | — | — | 37 | #3,091 |
| 2019 | — | — | 32 | #3,514 |
| 2018 | — | — | 46 | #2,682 |
| 2017 | — | — | 42 | #2,854 |
| 2016 | — | — | 45 | #2,698 |
| 2015 | — | — | 38 | #3,040 |
| 2014 | — | — | 36 | #3,106 |
| 2013 | — | — | 31 | #3,437 |
| 2012 | — | — | 32 | #3,398 |
| 2011 | — | — | 27 | #3,824 |
| 2010 | — | — | 29 | #3,652 |
| 2009 | — | — | 18 | #5,155 |
| 2008 | — | — | 25 | #4,062 |
| 2007 | — | — | 31 | #3,463 |
| 2006 | — | — | 22 | #4,267 |
| 2005 | — | — | 31 | #3,262 |
| 2004 | — | — | 27 | #3,483 |
| 2003 | — | — | 15 | #5,108 |
| 2002 | — | — | 13 | #5,494 |
| 2001 | — | — | 14 | #5,208 |
| 2000 | — | — | 15 | #4,857 |
| 1999 | — | — | 10 | #6,173 |
| 1998 | — | — | 14 | #4,721 |
| 1997 | — | — | 20 | #3,491 |
| 1996 | — | — | 15 | #4,236 |
| 1995 | — | — | 11 | #5,242 |
| 1994 | — | — | 18 | #3,640 |
| 1993 | — | — | 17 | #3,708 |
| 1992 | — | — | 19 | #3,376 |
| 1991 | — | — | 11 | #4,864 |
| 1990 | — | — | 16 | #3,655 |
| 1989 | — | — | 7 | #6,417 |
| 1988 | — | — | 11 | #4,251 |
| 1987 | — | — | 14 | #3,390 |
| 1986 | — | — | 20 | #2,625 |
| 1985 | — | — | 14 | #3,259 |
| 1984 | — | — | 7 | #5,132 |
| 1983 | — | — | 12 | #3,465 |
| 1982 | — | — | 14 | #3,165 |
| 1981 | — | — | 18 | #2,603 |
| 1980 | — | — | 14 | #3,146 |
| 1979 | — | — | 15 | #2,931 |
| 1978 | — | — | 20 | #2,307 |
| 1977 | — | — | 18 | #2,488 |
| 1976 | — | — | 18 | #2,449 |
| 1975 | — | — | 17 | #2,474 |
| 1974 | — | — | 18 | #2,304 |
| 1973 | — | — | 27 | #1,707 |
| 1972 | — | — | 21 | #1,988 |
| 1971 | — | — | 20 | #2,074 |
| 1970 | — | — | 19 | #2,081 |
| 1969 | — | — | 35 | #1,362 |
| 1968 | — | — | 28 | #1,484 |
| 1967 | — | — | 28 | #1,455 |
| 1966 | — | — | 29 | #1,432 |
| 1965 | — | — | 35 | #1,300 |
| 1964 | — | — | 35 | #1,337 |
| 1963 | — | — | 33 | #1,361 |
| 1962 | — | — | 40 | #1,234 |
| 1961 | — | — | 36 | #1,331 |
| 1960 | — | — | 36 | #1,323 |
| 1959 | — | — | 59 | #1,006 |
| 1958 | — | — | 51 | #1,074 |
| 1957 | — | — | 60 | #984 |
| 1956 | — | — | 59 | #972 |
| 1955 | — | — | 55 | #1,014 |
| 1954 | — | — | 48 | #1,087 |
| 1953 | — | — | 45 | #1,094 |
| 1952 | — | — | 58 | #932 |
| 1951 | — | — | 41 | #1,126 |
| 1950 | — | — | 49 | #992 |
| 1949 | — | — | 53 | #948 |
| 1948 | — | — | 49 | #1,006 |
| 1947 | — | — | 76 | #791 |
| 1946 | — | — | 66 | #810 |
| 1945 | — | — | 59 | #810 |
| 1944 | — | — | 61 | #804 |
| 1943 | — | — | 80 | #722 |
| 1942 | — | — | 71 | #763 |
| 1941 | — | — | 70 | #739 |
| 1940 | — | — | 84 | #661 |
| 1939 | — | — | 84 | #648 |
| 1938 | — | — | 85 | #648 |
| 1937 | — | — | 95 | #593 |
| 1936 | — | — | 80 | #656 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,394 | 119 | #530 |
| 1934 | — | — | 133 | #496 |
| 1933 | — | — | 81 | #646 |
| 1932 | — | — | 96 | #600 |
| 1931 | — | — | 113 | #551 |
| 1930 | — | — | 105 | #587 |
| 1929 | — | — | 123 | #524 |
| 1928 | — | — | 102 | #607 |
| 1927 | — | — | 128 | #548 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,455 | 113 | #589 |
| 1925 | — | — | 135 | #529 |
| 1924 | — | — | 141 | #531 |
| 1923 | — | — | 127 | #547 |
| 1922 | — | — | 141 | #520 |
| 1921 | — | — | 123 | #571 |
| 1920 | — | — | 129 | #539 |
| 1919 | — | — | 110 | #571 |
| 1918 | — | — | 124 | #539 |
| 1917 | — | — | 91 | #621 |
| 1916 | — | — | 123 | #511 |
| 1915 | — | — | 93 | #594 |
| 1914 | — | — | 72 | #593 |
| 1913 | — | — | 46 | #660 |
| 1912 | — | — | 42 | #652 |
| 1911 | — | — | 17 | #800 |
| 1910 | — | — | 13 | #884 |
| 1909 | — | — | 11 | #911 |
| 1908 | — | — | 5 | #1,441 |
| 1907 | — | — | 15 | #676 |
| 1906 | — | — | 6 | #1,156 |
| 1905 | — | — | 7 | #1,024 |
| 1904 | — | — | 8 | #908 |
| 1903 | — | — | 7 | #934 |
| 1901 | — | — | 7 | #883 |
| 1900 | — | — | 8 | #986 |
| 1899 | — | — | 8 | #803 |
| 1898 | — | — | 8 | #828 |
| 1897 | — | — | 7 | #872 |
| 1896 | — | — | 7 | #922 |
| 1894 | — | — | 5 | #1,131 |
| 1892 | — | — | 6 | #994 |
| 1889 | — | — | 9 | #689 |
| 1884 | — | — | 6 | #886 |
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).