Meaning not yet researched.
Eli: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 3,418 in 2025. Its best rank was #43 in 2013.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #43 in 2013; #104 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Eli in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#104 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2013, at #43.
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Eli: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 3,418 boys in 2025. Peak: #43 in 2013 · most boys in one year: 8,079 (2012).
In 2025, 3,418 US boys were named Eli, making it the 104th most common boys’ name of the year, down 12 places from #92 in 2024. That is 324 fewer than the 3,742 boys named Eli in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #43, reached in 2013. The most boys given the name in a single year was 8,079, in 2012. For comparison, it was #53 in 2015 and #575 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Eli in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 73 babies with the name. In all, 154,512 US babies have been given the name, 0.7% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 70,213 babies named Eli.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 51,571 US boys were named Eli; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 7,132. In 2025 that was about 1 in 500 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Eli ranked highest in Maine in 2025, at #47 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 20 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Elio (5,174 babies since 1880), Ely (5,087 babies since 1880), Elie (3,405 babies since 1880) and Elli (2,798 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Elihu, Ilia and Eligh 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Elihu (1,236), Ilia (1,077), Eligh (1,019), Elya (659), Eliu (537), Eily (438), Elea (390), Eleia (295), Elye (190), Elih (138), Eulia (65), Eulie (55), and more.
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 Eli in the open dataset we use.
Eli is listed as a nickname for Elias, Elijah, Elisha.
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 2 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maine | 21 | #47 | #43 |
| Alaska | 11 | #66 | #98 |
| New York | 248 | #67 | #57 |
| West Virginia | 24 | #74 | #41 |
| Louisiana | 59 | #76 | #27 |
| New Jersey | 115 | #78 | #100 |
| Kansas | 41 | #80 | #32 |
| Wisconsin | 72 | #81 | #35 |
| New Mexico | 21 | #89 | #19 |
| Pennsylvania | 138 | #90 | #59 |
| Utah | 55 | #91 | #54 |
| Oklahoma | 46 | #93 | #23 |
| North Dakota | 12 | #94 | #30 |
| Iowa | 39 | #94 | #35 |
| Massachusetts | 73 | #94 | #82 |
| Arkansas | 35 | #95 | #35 |
| Hawaii | 10 | #96 | #58 |
| Virginia | 94 | #96 | #56 |
| Missouri | 66 | #98 | #29 |
| Idaho | 25 | #99 | #45 |
| New Hampshire | 15 | #101 | #82 |
| Alabama | 52 | #101 | #57 |
| Florida | 221 | #102 | #59 |
| Tennessee | 87 | #103 | #37 |
| Michigan | 90 | #104 | #51 |
| South Carolina | 50 | #105 | #60 |
| Colorado | 66 | #105 | #30 |
| Washington | 71 | #107 | #46 |
| Nevada | 28 | #109 | #50 |
| Texas | 363 | #110 | #62 |
| Connecticut | 34 | #112 | #79 |
| Ohio | 117 | #114 | #55 |
| Montana | 11 | #114 | #49 |
| Minnesota | 54 | #116 | #32 |
| Illinois | 103 | #116 | #68 |
| California | 340 | #117 | #71 |
| Indiana | 67 | #118 | #38 |
| Kentucky | 47 | #122 | #36 |
| Georgia | 95 | #122 | #52 |
| North Carolina | 100 | #123 | #46 |
| Arizona | 70 | #124 | #48 |
| Maryland | 47 | #126 | #67 |
| Nebraska | 18 | #157 | #36 |
| Oregon | 25 | #163 | #50 |
| District of Columbia | 5 | #177 | #84 |
| Delaware | 6 | #178 | #110 |
| Rhode Island | 6 | #188 | #108 |
| Mississippi | 14 | #223 | #60 |
| South Dakota | 5 | #270 | #47 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,099 | 3,418 | #104 |
| 2024 | 44 | #3,530 | 3,742 | #92 |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,678 | 4,111 | #79 |
| 2022 | 41 | #3,723 | 4,704 | #69 |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,652 | 4,913 | #64 |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,576 | 5,281 | #60 |
| 2019 | 33 | #4,274 | 5,539 | #62 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,873 | 6,094 | #57 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,556 | 6,637 | #54 |
| 2016 | 33 | #4,369 | 7,132 | #50 |
| 2015 | 27 | #5,023 | 7,163 | #53 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,850 | 7,513 | #49 |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,096 | 7,952 | #43 |
| 2012 | 31 | #4,634 | 8,079 | #43 |
| 2011 | 39 | #3,862 | 7,220 | #58 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,643 | 6,571 | #65 |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,844 | 4,923 | #90 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,631 | 4,526 | #99 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,636 | 3,253 | #129 |
| 2006 | 22 | #5,980 | 2,997 | #136 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,622 | 2,699 | #152 |
| 2004 | 42 | #3,513 | 2,557 | #156 |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,977 | 1,995 | #190 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,220 | 1,953 | #194 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,424 | 1,644 | #213 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,140 | 1,496 | #228 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,278 | 1,068 | #276 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,430 | 1,016 | #283 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,417 | 866 | #309 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,849 | 891 | #298 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,756 | 864 | #304 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,423 | 893 | #302 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,371 | 877 | #309 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,175 | 708 | #340 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,714 | 712 | #341 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,521 | 667 | #359 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,234 | 624 | #362 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,784 | 543 | #372 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,229 | 550 | #353 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,462 | 563 | #341 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,592 | 558 | #342 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,416 | 507 | #359 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,547 | 518 | #350 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,492 | 503 | #357 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,873 | 550 | #337 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,946 | 539 | #342 |
| 1979 | — | — | 498 | #353 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,851 | 441 | #365 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,762 | 476 | #361 |
| 1976 | 12 | #4,966 | 381 | #397 |
| 1975 | — | — | 338 | #426 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,155 | 373 | #401 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,867 | 339 | #425 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,635 | 264 | #484 |
| 1971 | — | — | 268 | #493 |
| 1970 | — | — | 232 | #530 |
| 1969 | — | — | 129 | #697 |
| 1968 | — | — | 139 | #642 |
| 1967 | — | — | 126 | #666 |
| 1966 | — | — | 117 | #685 |
| 1965 | — | — | 117 | #689 |
| 1964 | — | — | 121 | #704 |
| 1963 | — | — | 139 | #662 |
| 1962 | — | — | 140 | #655 |
| 1961 | — | — | 146 | #649 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,636 | 149 | #639 |
| 1959 | — | — | 146 | #640 |
| 1958 | — | — | 117 | #694 |
| 1957 | — | — | 129 | #673 |
| 1956 | — | — | 153 | #611 |
| 1955 | — | — | 119 | #671 |
| 1954 | — | — | 135 | #633 |
| 1953 | — | — | 126 | #637 |
| 1952 | — | — | 140 | #592 |
| 1951 | — | — | 142 | #582 |
| 1950 | — | — | 139 | #575 |
| 1949 | — | — | 125 | #607 |
| 1948 | — | — | 137 | #569 |
| 1947 | — | — | 143 | #567 |
| 1946 | — | — | 116 | #599 |
| 1945 | — | — | 125 | #536 |
| 1944 | — | — | 124 | #545 |
| 1943 | — | — | 118 | #586 |
| 1942 | — | — | 130 | #538 |
| 1941 | — | — | 130 | #522 |
| 1940 | — | — | 140 | #492 |
| 1939 | — | — | 110 | #547 |
| 1938 | — | — | 119 | #536 |
| 1937 | — | — | 144 | #470 |
| 1936 | — | — | 161 | #444 |
| 1935 | — | — | 175 | #419 |
| 1934 | — | — | 176 | #422 |
| 1933 | — | — | 157 | #439 |
| 1932 | — | — | 186 | #411 |
| 1931 | — | — | 174 | #432 |
| 1930 | — | — | 190 | #430 |
| 1929 | — | — | 198 | #418 |
| 1928 | — | — | 215 | #411 |
| 1927 | — | — | 224 | #400 |
| 1926 | — | — | 266 | #357 |
| 1925 | — | — | 291 | #341 |
| 1924 | — | — | 247 | #380 |
| 1923 | — | — | 260 | #369 |
| 1922 | — | — | 275 | #359 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,332 | 291 | #347 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,095 | 253 | #376 |
| 1919 | — | — | 241 | #373 |
| 1918 | — | — | 286 | #338 |
| 1917 | — | — | 246 | #355 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,065 | 271 | #319 |
| 1915 | — | — | 269 | #317 |
| 1914 | — | — | 208 | #315 |
| 1913 | — | — | 167 | #308 |
| 1912 | — | — | 159 | #285 |
| 1911 | — | — | 81 | #296 |
| 1910 | — | — | 63 | #312 |
| 1909 | — | — | 60 | #294 |
| 1908 | — | — | 55 | #293 |
| 1907 | — | — | 50 | #303 |
| 1906 | — | — | 44 | #312 |
| 1905 | — | — | 43 | #308 |
| 1904 | — | — | 43 | #296 |
| 1903 | — | — | 47 | #269 |
| 1902 | — | — | 51 | #260 |
| 1901 | — | — | 45 | #255 |
| 1900 | — | — | 45 | #316 |
| 1899 | — | — | 38 | #281 |
| 1898 | — | — | 46 | #264 |
| 1897 | — | — | 39 | #291 |
| 1896 | — | — | 43 | #279 |
| 1895 | — | — | 55 | #239 |
| 1894 | — | — | 60 | #220 |
| 1893 | — | — | 53 | #236 |
| 1892 | — | — | 60 | #227 |
| 1891 | — | — | 49 | #231 |
| 1890 | — | — | 49 | #239 |
| 1889 | — | — | 60 | #212 |
| 1888 | — | — | 75 | #200 |
| 1887 | — | — | 51 | #223 |
| 1886 | — | — | 66 | #202 |
| 1885 | — | — | 56 | #214 |
| 1884 | — | — | 67 | #200 |
| 1883 | — | — | 82 | #156 |
| 1882 | — | — | 94 | #146 |
| 1881 | — | — | 97 | #121 |
| 1880 | — | — | 73 | #177 |
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).