Eldred — boys' name

What the Data Says About Eldred

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,746 babies named Eldred between 1882 and 2012, spanning 131 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Eldred currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2012. The name reached its historical peak in 1921, when 122 babies received it in a single year. Eldred is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 294 additional births since 1910.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Eldred performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 1,028 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Eldred shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Minnesota, which accounts for 115 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Wisconsin and Michigan. In total, SSA state-level files list Eldred in 24 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Eldred 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 3,746 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.