Meaning not yet researched.
Elroy: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 22 in 2025. Its best rank was #438 in 1922.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #438 in 1922; #4,585 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Elroy in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,585 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1922, at #438.
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Elroy: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 22 boys in 2025. Peak: #438 in 1922 · most boys in one year: 192 (1922).
In 2025, 22 US boys were named Elroy, making it the 4,585th most common boys’ name of the year, down 352 places from #4,233 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 25 boys named Elroy in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #438, reached in 1922. That year also had the most boys given the name: 192. For comparison, it was #4,331 in 2015 and #743 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Elroy in 138 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 7,482 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,541 babies named Elroy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 229 US boys were named Elroy; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 28. In 2025 that was about 1 in 77,640 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Elroi 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Elroi (191).
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 Elroy in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 22 | #4,585 |
| 2024 | — | — | 25 | #4,233 |
| 2023 | — | — | 28 | #3,922 |
| 2022 | — | — | 19 | #5,083 |
| 2021 | — | — | 24 | #4,281 |
| 2020 | — | — | 17 | #5,316 |
| 2019 | — | — | 27 | #3,923 |
| 2018 | — | — | 21 | #4,646 |
| 2017 | — | — | 22 | #4,510 |
| 2016 | — | — | 24 | #4,233 |
| 2015 | — | — | 23 | #4,331 |
| 2014 | — | — | 21 | #4,589 |
| 2013 | — | — | 11 | #7,180 |
| 2012 | — | — | 13 | #6,419 |
| 2011 | — | — | 9 | #8,271 |
| 2010 | — | — | 12 | #6,799 |
| 2009 | — | — | 12 | #6,923 |
| 2008 | — | — | 7 | #10,190 |
| 2007 | — | — | 7 | #10,085 |
| 2006 | — | — | 10 | #7,591 |
| 2005 | — | — | 13 | #5,972 |
| 2004 | — | — | 12 | #6,244 |
| 2003 | — | — | 11 | #6,385 |
| 2002 | — | — | 9 | #7,209 |
| 2001 | — | — | 8 | #7,759 |
| 2000 | — | — | 9 | #7,004 |
| 1999 | — | — | 11 | #5,768 |
| 1998 | — | — | 6 | #8,812 |
| 1997 | — | — | 16 | #4,111 |
| 1996 | — | — | 13 | #4,688 |
| 1995 | — | — | 17 | #3,744 |
| 1994 | — | — | 13 | #4,605 |
| 1993 | — | — | 13 | #4,528 |
| 1992 | — | — | 15 | #3,980 |
| 1991 | — | — | 20 | #3,153 |
| 1990 | — | — | 28 | #2,454 |
| 1989 | — | — | 22 | #2,814 |
| 1988 | — | — | 24 | #2,463 |
| 1987 | — | — | 32 | #1,949 |
| 1986 | — | — | 25 | #2,249 |
| 1985 | — | — | 26 | #2,139 |
| 1984 | — | — | 17 | #2,731 |
| 1983 | — | — | 21 | #2,357 |
| 1982 | — | — | 33 | #1,743 |
| 1981 | — | — | 29 | #1,911 |
| 1980 | — | — | 23 | #2,240 |
| 1979 | — | — | 28 | #1,916 |
| 1978 | — | — | 27 | #1,886 |
| 1977 | — | — | 29 | #1,798 |
| 1976 | — | — | 41 | #1,395 |
| 1975 | — | — | 29 | #1,723 |
| 1974 | — | — | 43 | #1,299 |
| 1973 | — | — | 37 | #1,382 |
| 1972 | — | — | 46 | #1,219 |
| 1971 | — | — | 43 | #1,277 |
| 1970 | — | — | 54 | #1,119 |
| 1969 | — | — | 61 | #984 |
| 1968 | — | — | 48 | #1,072 |
| 1967 | — | — | 50 | #1,036 |
| 1966 | — | — | 59 | #945 |
| 1965 | — | — | 57 | #979 |
| 1964 | — | — | 84 | #826 |
| 1963 | — | — | 77 | #858 |
| 1962 | — | — | 81 | #842 |
| 1961 | — | — | 89 | #809 |
| 1960 | — | — | 97 | #772 |
| 1959 | — | — | 88 | #814 |
| 1958 | — | — | 73 | #884 |
| 1957 | — | — | 96 | #769 |
| 1956 | — | — | 83 | #820 |
| 1955 | — | — | 83 | #804 |
| 1954 | — | — | 82 | #796 |
| 1953 | — | — | 91 | #748 |
| 1952 | — | — | 83 | #773 |
| 1951 | — | — | 69 | #843 |
| 1950 | — | — | 86 | #743 |
| 1949 | — | — | 79 | #775 |
| 1948 | — | — | 81 | #752 |
| 1947 | — | — | 88 | #733 |
| 1946 | — | — | 83 | #718 |
| 1945 | — | — | 91 | #632 |
| 1944 | — | — | 106 | #595 |
| 1943 | — | — | 103 | #623 |
| 1942 | — | — | 120 | #563 |
| 1941 | — | — | 104 | #580 |
| 1940 | — | — | 111 | #562 |
| 1939 | — | — | 90 | #613 |
| 1938 | — | — | 108 | #561 |
| 1937 | — | — | 129 | #506 |
| 1936 | — | — | 130 | #498 |
| 1935 | — | — | 122 | #522 |
| 1934 | — | — | 117 | #547 |
| 1933 | — | — | 125 | #502 |
| 1932 | — | — | 123 | #526 |
| 1931 | — | — | 138 | #488 |
| 1930 | — | — | 136 | #513 |
| 1929 | — | — | 150 | #479 |
| 1928 | — | — | 132 | #525 |
| 1927 | — | — | 154 | #490 |
| 1926 | — | — | 138 | #516 |
| 1925 | — | — | 164 | #472 |
| 1924 | — | — | 158 | #493 |
| 1923 | — | — | 162 | #479 |
| 1922 | — | — | 192 | #438 |
| 1921 | — | — | 152 | #500 |
| 1920 | — | — | 139 | #519 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,420 | 136 | #512 |
| 1918 | — | — | 145 | #497 |
| 1917 | — | — | 143 | #479 |
| 1916 | — | — | 110 | #545 |
| 1915 | — | — | 104 | #551 |
| 1914 | — | — | 75 | #581 |
| 1913 | — | — | 51 | #620 |
| 1912 | — | — | 43 | #637 |
| 1911 | — | — | 23 | #656 |
| 1910 | — | — | 17 | #737 |
| 1909 | — | — | 11 | #912 |
| 1908 | — | — | 18 | #617 |
| 1907 | — | — | 13 | #753 |
| 1906 | — | — | 10 | #810 |
| 1905 | — | — | 14 | #643 |
| 1904 | — | — | 8 | #909 |
| 1903 | — | — | 6 | #1,046 |
| 1902 | — | — | 6 | #1,048 |
| 1900 | — | — | 6 | #1,208 |
| 1898 | — | — | 6 | #1,041 |
| 1897 | — | — | 8 | #807 |
| 1896 | — | — | 8 | #845 |
| 1895 | — | — | 7 | #911 |
| 1893 | — | — | 7 | #857 |
| 1892 | — | — | 5 | #1,121 |
| 1890 | — | — | 6 | #924 |
| 1889 | — | — | 5 | #1,014 |
| 1888 | — | — | 5 | #1,078 |
| 1887 | — | — | 5 | #978 |
| 1886 | — | — | 5 | #1,011 |
| 1884 | — | — | 6 | #893 |
| 1880 | — | — | 5 | #952 |
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).