Meaning not yet researched.
Eleazar: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 189 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,097 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,097 in 2023; #1,128 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Eleazar in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,128 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #1,097.
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Eleazar: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 189 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,097 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 195 (2023).
In 2025, 189 US boys were named Eleazar, making it the 1,128th most common boys’ name of the year, up 17 places from #1,145 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 183 boys named Eleazar in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,097, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 195. For comparison, it was #1,361 in 2015 and #1,836 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Eleazar in 104 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1919 with 5 babies. In all, 6,158 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,243 babies named Eleazar.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,665 US boys were named Eleazar; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 195. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,037 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Eleazar ranked highest in Oregon in 2025, at #640 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Elazar, Eliasar and Elessar are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Elazar (611), Eliasar (280), Elessar (18).
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 Eleazar 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 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon | 5 | #640 | — |
| Texas | 46 | #652 | #725 |
| Washington | 9 | #701 | #999 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #780 | — |
| California | 30 | #815 | #1,334 |
| Illinois | 8 | #961 | — |
| Florida | 12 | #1,077 | #1,125 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,137 | — |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,405 | — |
| New York | 7 | #1,459 | #1,517 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 189 | #1,128 |
| 2024 | — | — | 183 | #1,145 |
| 2023 | — | — | 195 | #1,097 |
| 2022 | — | — | 181 | #1,147 |
| 2021 | — | — | 170 | #1,165 |
| 2020 | — | — | 171 | #1,142 |
| 2019 | — | — | 142 | #1,302 |
| 2018 | — | — | 144 | #1,278 |
| 2017 | — | — | 159 | #1,178 |
| 2016 | — | — | 131 | #1,360 |
| 2015 | — | — | 128 | #1,361 |
| 2014 | — | — | 125 | #1,366 |
| 2013 | — | — | 121 | #1,388 |
| 2012 | — | — | 107 | #1,503 |
| 2011 | — | — | 90 | #1,670 |
| 2010 | — | — | 96 | #1,629 |
| 2009 | — | — | 104 | #1,565 |
| 2008 | — | — | 122 | #1,394 |
| 2007 | — | — | 115 | #1,414 |
| 2006 | — | — | 145 | #1,163 |
| 2005 | — | — | 109 | #1,374 |
| 2004 | — | — | 133 | #1,175 |
| 2003 | — | — | 99 | #1,368 |
| 2002 | — | — | 97 | #1,360 |
| 2001 | — | — | 111 | #1,210 |
| 2000 | — | — | 110 | #1,221 |
| 1999 | — | — | 84 | #1,398 |
| 1998 | — | — | 95 | #1,273 |
| 1997 | — | — | 104 | #1,167 |
| 1996 | — | — | 91 | #1,227 |
| 1995 | — | — | 105 | #1,113 |
| 1994 | — | — | 85 | #1,269 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,922 | 94 | #1,156 |
| 1992 | — | — | 81 | #1,256 |
| 1991 | — | — | 99 | #1,100 |
| 1990 | — | — | 69 | #1,340 |
| 1989 | — | — | 69 | #1,323 |
| 1988 | — | — | 71 | #1,206 |
| 1987 | — | — | 47 | #1,513 |
| 1986 | — | — | 64 | #1,194 |
| 1985 | — | — | 60 | #1,233 |
| 1984 | — | — | 51 | #1,302 |
| 1983 | — | — | 61 | #1,158 |
| 1982 | — | — | 51 | #1,311 |
| 1981 | — | — | 62 | #1,170 |
| 1980 | — | — | 54 | #1,262 |
| 1979 | — | — | 38 | #1,541 |
| 1978 | — | — | 44 | #1,400 |
| 1977 | — | — | 47 | #1,323 |
| 1976 | — | — | 37 | #1,475 |
| 1975 | — | — | 38 | #1,438 |
| 1974 | — | — | 40 | #1,357 |
| 1973 | — | — | 42 | #1,280 |
| 1972 | — | — | 37 | #1,394 |
| 1971 | — | — | 27 | #1,721 |
| 1970 | — | — | 30 | #1,555 |
| 1969 | — | — | 36 | #1,332 |
| 1968 | — | — | 25 | #1,592 |
| 1967 | — | — | 22 | #1,676 |
| 1966 | — | — | 26 | #1,521 |
| 1965 | — | — | 34 | #1,320 |
| 1964 | — | — | 23 | #1,670 |
| 1963 | — | — | 30 | #1,435 |
| 1962 | — | — | 26 | #1,557 |
| 1961 | — | — | 21 | #1,788 |
| 1960 | — | — | 28 | #1,532 |
| 1959 | — | — | 25 | #1,602 |
| 1958 | — | — | 24 | #1,606 |
| 1957 | — | — | 20 | #1,807 |
| 1956 | — | — | 19 | #1,849 |
| 1955 | — | — | 13 | #2,246 |
| 1954 | — | — | 28 | #1,445 |
| 1953 | — | — | 19 | #1,783 |
| 1952 | — | — | 15 | #2,029 |
| 1951 | — | — | 16 | #1,928 |
| 1950 | — | — | 17 | #1,836 |
| 1949 | — | — | 17 | #1,841 |
| 1948 | — | — | 20 | #1,670 |
| 1947 | — | — | 23 | #1,569 |
| 1946 | — | — | 12 | #2,186 |
| 1945 | — | — | 14 | #1,875 |
| 1944 | — | — | 16 | #1,761 |
| 1943 | — | — | 13 | #2,100 |
| 1942 | — | — | 10 | #2,421 |
| 1941 | — | — | 11 | #2,240 |
| 1940 | — | — | 7 | #2,943 |
| 1939 | — | — | 7 | #2,913 |
| 1938 | — | — | 5 | #3,674 |
| 1937 | — | — | 14 | #1,930 |
| 1936 | — | — | 11 | #2,215 |
| 1935 | — | — | 9 | #2,586 |
| 1934 | — | — | 19 | #1,624 |
| 1933 | — | — | 8 | #2,804 |
| 1932 | — | — | 14 | #2,030 |
| 1930 | — | — | 12 | #2,336 |
| 1929 | — | — | 20 | #1,692 |
| 1928 | — | — | 11 | #2,549 |
| 1927 | — | — | 13 | #2,327 |
| 1926 | — | — | 9 | #2,973 |
| 1925 | — | — | 10 | #2,808 |
| 1923 | — | — | 5 | #4,405 |
| 1922 | — | — | 6 | #3,979 |
| 1921 | — | — | 9 | #3,047 |
| 1919 | — | — | 5 | #4,340 |
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).