In 2025, 41 US boys were named Eloy, making it the 3,010th most common boys’ name of the year, down 331 places from #2,679 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 49 boys named Eloy in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #700, reached in 1946. The most boys given the name in a single year was 118, in 1993. For comparison, it was #2,537 in 2015 and #779 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Eloy in 117 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1908 with 6 babies. In all, 8,325 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 1,020 babies named Eloy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 464 US boys were named Eloy; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 55. In 2025 that was about 1 in 41,660 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Eligio, Ilo and Eloah are summarised on this page.