Meaning not yet researched.
Eldon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 60 in 2025. Its best rank was #209 in 1927.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #209 in 1927; #2,311 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Eldon in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,311 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1927, at #209.
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Eldon: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 60 boys in 2025. Peak: #209 in 1927 · most boys in one year: 647 (1926).
In 2025, 60 US boys were named Eldon, making it the 2,311th most common boys’ name of the year, down 68 places from #2,243 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 64 boys named Eldon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #209, reached in 1927. The most boys given the name in a single year was 647, in 1926. For comparison, it was #2,366 in 2015 and #395 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Eldon in 143 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 8 babies. In all, 26,157 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 5,968 babies named Eldon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 636 US boys were named Eldon; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 74. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,468 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Eldon ranked highest in Washington in 2025, at #929 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Elden (5,932 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Eldin, Eldean and Eldine 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Eldin (706), Eldean (366), Eldine (157), Eldene (129), Eldeen (39), Eldan (13), Eldion (5), Eldyn (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 Eldon in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | 6 | #929 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,347 | — |
| California | 6 | #2,268 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 60 | #2,311 |
| 2024 | — | — | 64 | #2,243 |
| 2023 | — | — | 63 | #2,253 |
| 2022 | — | — | 66 | #2,198 |
| 2021 | — | — | 57 | #2,387 |
| 2020 | — | — | 60 | #2,275 |
| 2019 | — | — | 74 | #1,982 |
| 2018 | — | — | 56 | #2,358 |
| 2017 | — | — | 72 | #1,981 |
| 2016 | — | — | 64 | #2,149 |
| 2015 | — | — | 55 | #2,366 |
| 2014 | — | — | 65 | #2,124 |
| 2013 | — | — | 42 | #2,781 |
| 2012 | — | — | 56 | #2,306 |
| 2011 | — | — | 50 | #2,482 |
| 2010 | — | — | 44 | #2,750 |
| 2009 | — | — | 41 | #2,916 |
| 2008 | — | — | 54 | #2,386 |
| 2007 | — | — | 41 | #2,879 |
| 2006 | — | — | 56 | #2,260 |
| 2005 | — | — | 46 | #2,473 |
| 2004 | — | — | 51 | #2,254 |
| 2003 | — | — | 39 | #2,589 |
| 2002 | — | — | 40 | #2,478 |
| 2001 | — | — | 42 | #2,355 |
| 2000 | — | — | 46 | #2,179 |
| 1999 | — | — | 38 | #2,364 |
| 1998 | — | — | 49 | #1,968 |
| 1997 | — | — | 48 | #1,913 |
| 1996 | — | — | 33 | #2,398 |
| 1995 | — | — | 39 | #2,113 |
| 1994 | — | — | 47 | #1,834 |
| 1993 | — | — | 40 | #2,020 |
| 1992 | — | — | 39 | #2,013 |
| 1991 | — | — | 56 | #1,549 |
| 1990 | — | — | 49 | #1,669 |
| 1989 | — | — | 55 | #1,499 |
| 1988 | — | — | 46 | #1,581 |
| 1987 | — | — | 57 | #1,301 |
| 1986 | — | — | 47 | #1,463 |
| 1985 | — | — | 59 | #1,246 |
| 1984 | — | — | 62 | #1,156 |
| 1983 | — | — | 65 | #1,111 |
| 1982 | — | — | 47 | #1,383 |
| 1981 | — | — | 66 | #1,127 |
| 1980 | — | — | 78 | #1,025 |
| 1979 | — | — | 59 | #1,180 |
| 1978 | — | — | 67 | #1,061 |
| 1977 | — | — | 82 | #942 |
| 1976 | — | — | 94 | #861 |
| 1975 | — | — | 101 | #827 |
| 1974 | — | — | 89 | #851 |
| 1973 | — | — | 85 | #862 |
| 1972 | — | — | 91 | #842 |
| 1971 | — | — | 119 | #751 |
| 1970 | — | — | 137 | #710 |
| 1969 | — | — | 115 | #727 |
| 1968 | — | — | 102 | #737 |
| 1967 | — | — | 113 | #699 |
| 1966 | — | — | 106 | #723 |
| 1965 | — | — | 135 | #645 |
| 1964 | — | — | 143 | #650 |
| 1963 | — | — | 145 | #652 |
| 1962 | — | — | 167 | #601 |
| 1961 | — | — | 166 | #617 |
| 1960 | — | — | 178 | #583 |
| 1959 | — | — | 181 | #583 |
| 1958 | — | — | 197 | #551 |
| 1957 | — | — | 216 | #526 |
| 1956 | — | — | 248 | #482 |
| 1955 | — | — | 252 | #466 |
| 1954 | — | — | 276 | #436 |
| 1953 | — | — | 275 | #420 |
| 1952 | — | — | 298 | #400 |
| 1951 | — | — | 288 | #400 |
| 1950 | — | — | 292 | #395 |
| 1949 | — | — | 339 | #369 |
| 1948 | — | — | 363 | #352 |
| 1947 | — | — | 436 | #327 |
| 1946 | — | — | 347 | #351 |
| 1945 | — | — | 352 | #315 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,801 | 386 | #308 |
| 1943 | — | — | 449 | #289 |
| 1942 | — | — | 448 | #284 |
| 1941 | — | — | 434 | #275 |
| 1940 | — | — | 485 | #248 |
| 1939 | — | — | 494 | #237 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,510 | 457 | #255 |
| 1937 | — | — | 491 | #237 |
| 1936 | — | — | 540 | #216 |
| 1935 | — | — | 514 | #228 |
| 1934 | — | — | 568 | #215 |
| 1933 | — | — | 535 | #216 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,600 | 547 | #220 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,009 | 561 | #221 |
| 1930 | — | — | 575 | #224 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,470 | 580 | #221 |
| 1928 | — | — | 579 | #227 |
| 1927 | — | — | 640 | #209 |
| 1926 | — | — | 647 | #211 |
| 1925 | — | — | 595 | #223 |
| 1924 | — | — | 597 | #225 |
| 1923 | — | — | 591 | #219 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,128 | 605 | #220 |
| 1921 | — | — | 596 | #225 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,541 | 517 | #243 |
| 1919 | — | — | 517 | #233 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,431 | 523 | #230 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,791 | 439 | #239 |
| 1916 | — | — | 424 | #246 |
| 1915 | — | — | 401 | #242 |
| 1914 | — | — | 295 | #250 |
| 1913 | — | — | 243 | #240 |
| 1912 | — | — | 153 | #288 |
| 1911 | — | — | 64 | #340 |
| 1910 | — | — | 62 | #316 |
| 1909 | — | — | 39 | #390 |
| 1908 | — | — | 38 | #375 |
| 1907 | — | — | 38 | #362 |
| 1906 | — | — | 38 | #337 |
| 1905 | — | — | 26 | #423 |
| 1904 | — | — | 26 | #410 |
| 1903 | — | — | 27 | #373 |
| 1902 | — | — | 24 | #417 |
| 1901 | — | — | 19 | #436 |
| 1900 | — | — | 20 | #537 |
| 1899 | — | — | 21 | #404 |
| 1898 | — | — | 11 | #672 |
| 1897 | — | — | 15 | #523 |
| 1896 | — | — | 14 | #561 |
| 1895 | — | — | 9 | #751 |
| 1894 | — | — | 14 | #548 |
| 1893 | — | — | 10 | #670 |
| 1892 | — | — | 7 | #878 |
| 1891 | — | — | 9 | #658 |
| 1890 | — | — | 7 | #832 |
| 1889 | — | — | 11 | #596 |
| 1888 | — | — | 11 | #623 |
| 1887 | — | — | 8 | #702 |
| 1886 | — | — | 7 | #787 |
| 1885 | — | — | 9 | #659 |
| 1884 | — | — | 6 | #887 |
| 1881 | — | — | 8 | #666 |
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).