Eliud
Eliud was given to 18 boys in 2025, #5,263 among boys’ names; 1,593 Americans have been recorded with it since 1931 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,510 Americans named Eliud and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 14 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Eliud by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Eliud mean?
Wiktionary, Swahili section
Eliud is “a male given name”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swahili section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Eliud?
#5,263 among boys’ names, 2025
Eliud fell from #3,255 in 2015 to #5,263 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 18.3 to 10.5 per million.
43 babies in 2000, the peak
Eliud peaked in 2000, when 43 boys were given it, #2,260 among boys’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 42% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #5,263 | 10.5 |
| 2024 | 25 | #4,229 | 14.5 |
| 2023 | 33 | #3,489 | 19.3 |
| 2022 | 21 | #4,747 | 12.0 |
| 2021 | 23 | #4,400 | 13.1 |
| 2020 | 35 | #3,219 | 20.3 |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,113 | 21.2 |
| 2018 | 28 | #3,811 | 15.4 |
| 2017 | 34 | #3,332 | 18.4 |
| 2016 | 26 | #4,025 | 13.7 |
Every recorded year (75)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 35 | #3,255 | 18.3 |
| 2014 | 31 | #3,479 | 16.1 |
| 2013 | 25 | #3,994 | 13.2 |
| 2012 | 36 | #3,131 | 19.0 |
| 2011 | 28 | #3,717 | 14.7 |
| 2010 | 34 | #3,259 | 17.7 |
| 2009 | 26 | #3,947 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 43 | #2,796 | 21.1 |
| 2007 | 40 | #2,939 | 19.3 |
| 2006 | 36 | #3,042 | 17.5 |
| 2005 | 40 | #2,719 | 20.0 |
| 2004 | 34 | #2,963 | 17.1 |
| 2003 | 35 | #2,799 | 17.7 |
| 2002 | 36 | #2,650 | 18.5 |
| 2001 | 33 | #2,820 | 17.0 |
| 2000 | 43 | #2,260 | 21.9 |
| 1999 | 37 | #2,412 | 19.3 |
| 1998 | 28 | #2,880 | 14.6 |
| 1997 | 20 | #3,487 | 10.6 |
| 1996 | 29 | #2,614 | 15.3 |
| 1995 | 31 | #2,458 | 16.3 |
| 1994 | 31 | #2,457 | 16.0 |
| 1993 | 24 | #2,882 | 12.2 |
| 1992 | 24 | #2,861 | 12.0 |
| 1991 | 29 | #2,420 | 14.4 |
| 1990 | 31 | #2,266 | 15.1 |
| 1989 | 23 | #2,712 | 11.5 |
| 1988 | 20 | #2,779 | 10.4 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,337 | 5.4 |
| 1986 | 19 | #2,712 | 10.3 |
| 1985 | 14 | #3,257 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 16 | #2,859 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,691 | 6.1 |
| 1982 | 19 | #2,535 | 10.5 |
| 1981 | 15 | #2,938 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 19 | #2,564 | 10.7 |
| 1979 | 17 | #2,696 | 9.9 |
| 1978 | 14 | #2,965 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 13 | #3,084 | 7.9 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,334 | 7.0 |
| 1975 | 27 | #1,800 | 17.3 |
| 1974 | 12 | #2,999 | 7.6 |
| 1973 | 17 | #2,339 | 10.9 |
| 1972 | 14 | #2,571 | 8.6 |
| 1971 | 17 | #2,307 | 9.6 |
| 1970 | 10 | #3,131 | 5.4 |
| 1969 | 13 | #2,458 | 7.3 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,310 | 2.9 |
| 1967 | 14 | #2,175 | 8.0 |
| 1966 | 15 | #2,071 | 8.4 |
| 1965 | 9 | #2,854 | 4.8 |
| 1964 | 9 | #2,914 | 4.5 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,756 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 12 | #2,420 | 5.8 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,178 | 3.8 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,774 | 2.8 |
| 1959 | 9 | #2,889 | 4.2 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,655 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 8 | #3,036 | 3.8 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,018 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 9 | #2,800 | 4.4 |
| 1953 | 5 | #3,968 | 2.5 |
| 1947 | 5 | #3,893 | 2.7 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,368 | 5.8 |
| 1931 | 5 | #3,934 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Eliud a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Eliud has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 75 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Eliud: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Eliud, and how old are they?
1,510 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,593 Americans ever recorded as Eliud. The median Eliud alive today is 25 years old; half are between 14 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 2,522 people named Eliud (172 women and girls, 2,350 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,383 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 63 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 201 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 330 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 540 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 369 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Eliud born?
The states with the most babies named Eliud are Texas, California and New York, with 99% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 726 | not ranked | 5.0× |
| California | 69 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 35 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Arizona | 7 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Eliud is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Eliud is most over-represented in Texas: since 1931 it was given 5.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Eliud with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,832 babies since 1880, Eliud is the most given (87% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Eliud
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Eliud and names like it
- Compare Eliud and EladBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sEliud peaked in 2000.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Eliud since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Eliud.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Eliud alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.