Elhadji — #8634 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Elhadji

The Social Security Administration has registered 172 babies named Elhadji between 1998 and 2024, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Elhadji currently holds the #8634 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 12 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Elhadji performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 86 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Elhadji shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 21 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Elhadji in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Elhadji 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 172 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.