Eldrid — boys' name
23 babies named Eldrid in U.S. Social Security records since 1917, with the highest year being 1918. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
57% of everyone ever named Eldrid was born in this single decade.
8 babies were named Eldrid in 1918 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Eldrid
The Social Security Administration has registered 23 babies named Eldrid between 1917 and 1941, spanning 25 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Eldrid currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1941. The name reached its historical peak in 1918, when 8 babies received it in a single year. Eldrid is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5 additional births since 1916.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Eldrid performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 13 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Eldrid shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Eldrid 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 23 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.
Eldrid at a glance
Last recorded 1941Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Eldrid popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1941–1917
- Peak year (1918)
- 8
- Annual births at peak — across 25 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1941.
23 total births across 25 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1918 with 8 births in a single year.
Eldrid popularity over time — girls
5 total births recorded since 1916 (Eldrid as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Eldrid accounts for 18% of total recorded use across both genders.
Eldrid by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1910s
- 13 births that decade — 57% of Eldrid's all-time total
Eldrid decade highlights
- Peak decade 13 births
- Runner-up 5 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1910s was Eldrid's strongest decade
13 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 57% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1917–1941 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.