girls:
55 births since 1917
#5661 (1st percentile)
boys:
26k births since 1881
#712 (84th percentile)
overall:
26k births since 1881
#1569 (80th percentile)
The name Eldon is the #1,569 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 26,031 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 79.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 79.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #712 (84.5% percentile) for all time with 25,976 births since 1881. For girls, it ranks #5,661 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 55 births since 1917.
Eldon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for boys and 1917 for girls). Birth data for Eldon is available in 141 out of the 143 years between 1881 and 2023 (141 years for boys and 9 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Eldon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Eldon reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 62.5% percentile (ranked #207) with 565 births per million. The name was most common in 1926, with 565 births per million (ranked 62.5% percentile). Despite a peak around 2020, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for boys. Currently, Eldon ranks #854 for boys (6.3% percentile) with 34 births per million, which is 6.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Eldon reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #589) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1944.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Eldon".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Eldon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 85.0% confident that Eldon is pronounced as EHL-duhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ihl-DAHN, at 15.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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