Eleftherios — boys' name
180 babies named Eleftherios in U.S. Social Security records since 1968, with the highest year being 1980. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
27% of everyone ever named Eleftherios was born in this single decade.
11 babies were named Eleftherios in 1980 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Eleftherios
The Social Security Administration has registered 180 babies named Eleftherios between 1968 and 2023, spanning 56 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Eleftherios currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1980, when 11 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Eleftherios performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 48 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Eleftherios shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Eleftherios in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Eleftherios 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 180 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.
Eleftherios at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Eleftherios popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1968
- Peak year (1980)
- 11
- Annual births at peak — across 56 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
180 total births across 56 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1980 with 11 births in a single year.
Eleftherios by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- 48 births that decade — 27% of Eleftherios's all-time total
Eleftherios decade highlights
- Peak decade 48 births
- Runner-up 34 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1970s was Eleftherios's strongest decade
48 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 27% of all-time use.
Eleftherios by state
Where Eleftherios concentrates geographically — total births since 1968
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 5 | 2.8% |
5 of 180 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 2.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 2.8% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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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, 1968–2023 (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.