Elroy
Elroy was given to 22 boys in 2025, #4,584 among boys’ names; 7,482 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,800 Americans named Elroy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (37% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 43 and 73.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elroy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Elroy mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Elroy is “a male given name originating as a coinage, a pseudo-Hispanic variant of Leroy.” Its etymology gives the sense “Leroy” (in).
Pseudo-Hispanism, derived from Leroy, but with the le in “Leroy” being replaced with its corresponding equivalent in Spanish el.
/ˈɛl.ɹoɪ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Elroy?
#4,584 among boys’ names, 2025
Elroy fell from #4,329 in 2015 to #4,584 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 12.0 to 12.9 per million.
192 babies in 1922, the peak
Elroy peaked in 1922, when 192 boys were given it, #438 among boys’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #4,584 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 25 | #4,230 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 28 | #3,919 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 19 | #5,079 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 24 | #4,277 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 17 | #5,312 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 27 | #3,920 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 21 | #4,642 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 22 | #4,506 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 24 | #4,232 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (138)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #4,329 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 21 | #4,585 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 11 | #7,175 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 13 | #6,413 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 9 | #8,264 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 12 | #6,793 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 12 | #6,918 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,183 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,079 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,586 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 13 | #5,966 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,238 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,378 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,202 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 8 | #7,752 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 9 | #6,996 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,762 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 6 | #8,804 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 16 | #4,106 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 13 | #4,681 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 17 | #3,738 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,599 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 13 | #4,522 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 15 | #3,973 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 20 | #3,147 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 28 | #2,449 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 22 | #2,808 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 24 | #2,458 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 32 | #1,945 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 25 | #2,247 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 26 | #2,138 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 17 | #2,730 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 21 | #2,356 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 33 | #1,742 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 29 | #1,910 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 23 | #2,240 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 28 | #1,916 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 27 | #1,886 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 29 | #1,798 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 41 | #1,395 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 29 | #1,722 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 43 | #1,299 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 37 | #1,382 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 46 | #1,219 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 43 | #1,277 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 54 | #1,119 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 61 | #984 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 48 | #1,072 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 50 | #1,036 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 59 | #945 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 57 | #979 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 84 | #826 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 77 | #858 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 81 | #841 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 89 | #808 | 0.04 |
| 1960 | 97 | #771 | 0.05 |
| 1959 | 88 | #813 | 0.04 |
| 1958 | 73 | #883 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 96 | #768 | 0.04 |
| 1956 | 83 | #819 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 83 | #803 | 0.04 |
| 1954 | 82 | #795 | 0.04 |
| 1953 | 91 | #747 | 0.05 |
| 1952 | 83 | #772 | 0.04 |
| 1951 | 69 | #842 | 0.04 |
| 1950 | 86 | #742 | 0.05 |
| 1949 | 79 | #774 | 0.04 |
| 1948 | 81 | #751 | 0.05 |
| 1947 | 88 | #732 | 0.05 |
| 1946 | 83 | #718 | 0.05 |
| 1945 | 91 | #632 | 0.07 |
| 1944 | 106 | #595 | 0.08 |
| 1943 | 103 | #623 | 0.07 |
| 1942 | 120 | #563 | 0.09 |
| 1941 | 104 | #580 | 0.08 |
| 1940 | 111 | #562 | 0.10 |
| 1939 | 90 | #613 | 0.08 |
| 1938 | 108 | #561 | 0.10 |
| 1937 | 129 | #506 | 0.12 |
| 1936 | 130 | #498 | 0.13 |
| 1935 | 122 | #522 | 0.12 |
| 1934 | 117 | #547 | 0.11 |
| 1933 | 125 | #502 | 0.13 |
| 1932 | 123 | #526 | 0.12 |
| 1931 | 138 | #488 | 0.13 |
| 1930 | 136 | #513 | 0.12 |
| 1929 | 150 | #479 | 0.14 |
| 1928 | 132 | #525 | 0.12 |
| 1927 | 154 | #490 | 0.14 |
| 1926 | 138 | #516 | 0.12 |
| 1925 | 164 | #472 | 0.15 |
| 1924 | 158 | #493 | 0.14 |
| 1923 | 162 | #479 | 0.15 |
| 1922 | 192 | #438 | 0.18 |
| 1921 | 152 | #500 | 0.14 |
| 1920 | 139 | #519 | 0.13 |
| 1919 | 136 | #512 | 0.14 |
| 1918 | 145 | #497 | 0.14 |
| 1917 | 143 | #479 | 0.15 |
| 1916 | 110 | #545 | 0.12 |
| 1915 | 104 | #551 | 0.12 |
| 1914 | 75 | #581 | 0.11 |
| 1913 | 51 | #620 | 0.10 |
| 1912 | 43 | #637 | 0.10 |
| 1911 | 23 | #656 | 0.10 |
| 1910 | 17 | #737 | 0.09 |
| 1909 | 11 | #912 | 0.07 |
| 1908 | 18 | #617 | 0.12 |
| 1907 | 13 | #753 | 0.09 |
| 1906 | 10 | #810 | 0.08 |
| 1905 | 14 | #643 | 0.11 |
| 1904 | 8 | #909 | 0.06 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,046 | 0.05 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,047 | 0.05 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,207 | 0.04 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,040 | 0.05 |
| 1897 | 8 | #806 | 0.07 |
| 1896 | 8 | #844 | 0.07 |
| 1895 | 7 | #910 | 0.06 |
| 1893 | 7 | #857 | 0.06 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,120 | 0.04 |
| 1890 | 6 | #924 | 0.05 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,013 | 0.05 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,077 | 0.04 |
| 1887 | 5 | #978 | 0.05 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,011 | 0.05 |
| 1884 | 6 | #893 | 0.05 |
| 1880 | 5 | #952 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Elroy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elroy has been given almost only to boys: 6 girls in 138 years of records.
Girls and boys named Elroy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elroy, and how old are they?
2,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 37% of the 7,482 Americans ever recorded as Elroy. The median Elroy alive today is 62 years old; half are between 43 and 73.
The 2020 Census counted 3,057 people named Elroy (21 women and girls, 3,036 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,203 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 381 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,050 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 590 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 330 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 162 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 282 |
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 Elroy born?
The states with the most babies named Elroy are Wisconsin, Texas and Minnesota, with 59% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Wisconsin and Minnesota are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin | 869 | not ranked | 4.9× |
| Texas | 752 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Minnesota | 446 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| Louisiana | 220 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Illinois | 211 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Dakota | 158 | not ranked | 3.7× |
| Missouri | 136 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 107 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 86 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 85 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Elroy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Elroy is most over-represented in Wisconsin: since 1910 it was given 4.9 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 Elroy 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 8,424 babies since 1880, Elroy is the most given (89% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 62 babies (35%), the second most given that year.
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 Elroy
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 Elroy and names like it
- Compare Elroy and ElrayBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sElroy peaked in 1922.
- Wisconsin’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elroy since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Elroy: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Elroy.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Elroy alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with EMost given first.