girls:
294 births since 1910
#5422 (5th percentile)
boys:
3.7k births since 1882
#2026 (56th percentile)
overall:
4k births since 1882
#4316 (44th percentile)
The name Eldred is the #4,316 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,040 recorded births since 1882. This represents the 44.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 44.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,026 (55.8% percentile) for all time with 3,746 births since 1882. For girls, it ranks #5,422 (5.1% percentile) for all time with 294 births since 1910.
Eldred first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1882 (1882 for boys and 1910 for girls). Birth data for Eldred is available in 107 out of the 131 years between 1882 and 2012 (107 years for boys and 28 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 Eldred has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 92.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Eldred reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 22.1% percentile (ranked #403) with 125 births per million. The name was most common in 1917, with 125 births per million (ranked 22.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2012.
For girls, Eldred reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 6.8% percentile (ranked #564) with 36 births per million. The name was most common in 1921, with 36 births per million (ranked 6.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1947.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Eldred".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Eldred. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 66.7% confident that Eldred is pronounced as EHL-drehd, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EHL-derd, at 14.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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