girls:
6 births since 1919
#5710 (0th percentile)
boys:
7.4k births since 1880
#1375 (70th percentile)
overall:
7.4k births since 1880
#3131 (60th percentile)
The name Elroy is the #3,131 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 7,433 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 59.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 59.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,375 (70.0% percentile) for all time with 7,427 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,710 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 1919.
Elroy has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1919 for girls). Birth data for Elroy is available in 136 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (136 years for boys and 1 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 Elroy has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Elroy reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 31.9% percentile (ranked #372) with 171 births per million. The name was most common in 1922, with 171 births per million (ranked 31.9% percentile). Despite a peak around 2019, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for boys. Currently, Elroy ranks #888 for boys (2.5% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 9.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Elroy reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #593) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1919, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1919.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elroy".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Elroy. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 50.8% confident that Elroy is pronounced as EHL-roy, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EHL-ROY, at 23.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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