Eloy
#2,991 for boys in 2025, 41 births
- Peak · boys
- 1946 · 86 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 8,325since 1908
Eloy over time
Rank among boys' names. Eloy has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,991 | 41 |
| 2024 | #2,674 | 49 |
| 2023 | #3,055 | 40 |
| 2022 | #3,100 | 39 |
| 2021 | #2,652 | 48 |
| 2020 | #2,617 | 48 |
| 2019 | #2,626 | 49 |
| 2018 | #2,472 | 52 |
| 2017 | #2,345 | 55 |
| 2016 | #2,783 | 43 |
| 2015 | #2,528 | 49 |
| 2014 | #2,317 | 56 |
| 2013 | #2,364 | 53 |
| 2012 | #2,358 | 54 |
| 2011 | #2,284 | 56 |
| 2010 | #2,262 | 57 |
| 2009 | #2,252 | 58 |
| 2008 | #1,969 | 72 |
| 2007 | #1,861 | 77 |
| 2006 | #1,943 | 69 |
| 2005 | #1,603 | 85 |
| 2004 | #1,379 | 104 |
| 2003 | #1,656 | 75 |
| 2002 | #1,414 | 92 |
| 2001 | #1,265 | 105 |
| 2000 | #1,448 | 85 |
| 1999 | #1,227 | 102 |
| 1998 | #1,205 | 102 |
| 1997 | #1,242 | 93 |
| 1996 | #1,180 | 97 |
| 1995 | #1,034 | 116 |
| 1994 | #1,119 | 102 |
| 1993 | #1,007 | 118 |
| 1992 | #1,077 | 104 |
| 1991 | #1,063 | 104 |
| 1990 | #1,238 | 79 |
| 1989 | #1,197 | 80 |
| 1988 | #1,083 | 84 |
| 1987 | #1,054 | 82 |
| 1986 | #965 | 90 |
| 1985 | #950 | 92 |
| 1984 | #871 | 102 |
| 1983 | #972 | 82 |
| 1982 | #876 | 103 |
| 1981 | #865 | 105 |
| 1980 | #945 | 90 |
| 1979 | #826 | 111 |
| 1978 | #880 | 95 |
| 1977 | #853 | 101 |
| 1976 | #838 | 99 |
| 1975 | #796 | 109 |
| 1974 | #802 | 100 |
| 1973 | #776 | 105 |
| 1972 | #846 | 90 |
| 1971 | #778 | 109 |
| 1970 | #806 | 101 |
| 1969 | #794 | 95 |
| 1968 | #834 | 76 |
| 1967 | #765 | 91 |
| 1966 | #757 | 93 |
| 1965 | #759 | 95 |
| 1964 | #815 | 85 |
| 1963 | #816 | 86 |
| 1962 | #729 | 110 |
| 1961 | #825 | 86 |
| 1960 | #726 | 112 |
| 1959 | #766 | 99 |
| 1958 | #721 | 106 |
| 1957 | #747 | 101 |
| 1956 | #749 | 96 |
| 1955 | #818 | 80 |
| 1954 | #868 | 71 |
| 1953 | #768 | 85 |
| 1952 | #755 | 87 |
| 1951 | #716 | 94 |
| 1950 | #778 | 77 |
| 1949 | #764 | 81 |
| 1948 | #729 | 85 |
| 1947 | #748 | 84 |
| 1946 | #700 | 86 |
| 1945 | #718 | 72 |
| 1944 | #861 | 54 |
| 1943 | #773 | 71 |
| 1942 | #888 | 55 |
| 1941 | #898 | 50 |
| 1940 | #802 | 60 |
| 1939 | #867 | 50 |
| 1938 | #927 | 46 |
| 1937 | #906 | 47 |
| 1936 | #861 | 50 |
| 1935 | #858 | 53 |
| 1934 | #762 | 65 |
| 1933 | #782 | 61 |
| 1932 | #924 | 49 |
| 1931 | #841 | 56 |
| 1930 | #885 | 56 |
| 1929 | #900 | 55 |
| 1928 | #950 | 51 |
| 1927 | #898 | 57 |
| 1926 | #1,219 | 35 |
| 1925 | #1,012 | 46 |
| 1924 | #916 | 58 |
| 1923 | #1,087 | 43 |
| 1922 | #991 | 51 |
| 1921 | #1,002 | 49 |
| 1920 | #940 | 54 |
| 1919 | #1,207 | 34 |
| 1918 | #1,343 | 28 |
| 1917 | #1,322 | 27 |
| 1916 | #1,646 | 19 |
| 1915 | #1,241 | 28 |
| 1914 | #1,260 | 22 |
| 1913 | #1,441 | 14 |
| 1912 | #1,137 | 17 |
| 1911 | #1,290 | 8 |
| 1910 | — | |
| 1909 | #1,020 | 9 |
| 1908 | #1,217 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Eloy! It came in at #1,217, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1910, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Eloy is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Mexico#290 · 1 in 1,682
- Texas#360 · 1 in 2,878
- California#534 · 1 in 6,497
- Illinois#765 · 1 in 13,231
Best ever in a state: #25 in New Mexico, 1912.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Mexico | #290 | 6 | 1 in 1,682 |
| Texas | #360 | 40 | 1 in 2,878 |
| California | #534 | 26 | 1 in 6,497 |
| Illinois | #765 | 6 | 1 in 13,231 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Eloy
- 317 spots since 2024 (#2,674 → #2,991)
- 374 spots since 2020 (#2,617 → #2,991)
- 463 spots since 2015 (#2,528 → #2,991)
- Biggest jump: 321 spots in 1927 (#1,219 → #898)
- Biggest drop: 119 spots in 1980 (#826 → #945)
- Debuted 1908
- Peaked 1946 at #700 (86 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 70 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 63 yrs · run 1927–1986
- Highest: 1 in 14,324 boys born in 1975 were named Eloy (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 41,660 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #700 in 1946, was only 1 in 18,884 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 12.3% of all boys named Eloy (1,020) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 15 | #1,020 (1909) | #1,119 |
| 1910s | 197 | #1,137 (1912) | #1,321 |
| 1920s | 499 | #898 (1927) | #992 |
| 1930s | 533 | #762 (1934) | #861 |
| 1940s | 698 | #700 (1946) | #788 |
| 1950s | 896 | #716 (1951) | #769 |
| 1960s | 929 | #726 (1960) | #782 |
| 1970s | 1,020 | #776 (1973) | #820 |
| 1980s | 910 | #865 (1981) | #978 |
| 1990s | 1,017 | #1,007 (1993) | #1,139 |
| 2000s | 822 | #1,265 (2001) | #1,679 |
| 2010s | 524 | #2,262 (2010) | #2,434 |
| 2020s | 265 | #2,617 (2020) | #2,848 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Eloy in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 17,282 of them was named Eloy, which outranked 87.0% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).