Eldie — boys' name

What the Data Says About Eldie

The Social Security Administration has registered 31 babies named Eldie between 1916 and 1929, spanning 14 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Eldie currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1929. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 8 babies received it in a single year. Eldie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 17 additional births since 1917.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Eldie performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 24 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Eldie shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Eldie in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Eldie in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 31 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.