boys:
1.6k births since 1931
#3108 (32nd percentile)
overall:
1.6k births since 1931
#6196 (20th percentile)
The name Eliud is the #6,196 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,550 recorded births since 1931. This represents the 19.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 19.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,108 (32.2% percentile) for all time with 1,550 births since 1931.
Eliud first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1931 (first recorded for boys in 1931). Birth data for Eliud is available in 73 out of the 93 years between 1931 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Eliud reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 4.7% percentile (ranked #776) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 21 births per million (ranked 4.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Eliud ranks #883 for boys (3.1% percentile) with 18 births per million, which is 87.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Eliud".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Eliud. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 42.4% confident that Eliud is pronounced as eh-LEE-uhd, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-lee-uhd, at 15.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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