In 2025, 6 US boys were named Eldridge, making it the 11,041st most common boys’ name of the year, down 3,118 places from #7,923 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 10 boys named Eldridge in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #424, reached in 1894. The most boys given the name in a single year was 120, in 1924. For comparison, it was #12,604 in 2015 and #922 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Eldridge in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 13 babies. In all, 5,247 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,004 babies named Eldridge.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 89 US boys were named Eldridge; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 14. In 2025 that was about 1 in 284,679 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Eldredge are summarised on this page.