boys:
8.2k births since 1908
#1296 (72nd percentile)
overall:
8.2k births since 1908
#2973 (62nd percentile)
The name Eloy is the #2,973 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 8,233 recorded births since 1908. This represents the 61.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 61.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,296 (71.7% percentile) for all time with 8,233 births since 1908.
Eloy first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1908 (first recorded for boys in 1908). Birth data for Eloy is available in 115 out of the 116 years between 1908 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, Eloy reached its peak popularity in 1960, achieving the 16.0% percentile (ranked #552) with 51 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 67 births per million (ranked 15.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Eloy ranks #877 for boys (3.7% percentile) with 21 births per million, which is 31.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Eloy".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Eloy. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 46.5% confident that Eloy is pronounced as EE-loy, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-loy, at 20.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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