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Eilidh

#8,501 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Eilionoir

Eilidh has been given to 275 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #8,501 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Eilidh, 2025

1 in 276,000

Eilidh over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eilidh: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Eilionoir

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Eilidh means

Eilidh is a diminutive of Eilionoir.

Origin, language, and formation

Eilidh is used in Scottish Gaelic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eilionoir, Helen and Eileanor.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Scottish Gaelic, Eilidh is pronounced /ˈeːlɪ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 275 girls were recorded with the name Eilidh between 1999 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2019; its best national rank was #6,493 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,309 in 2020 to #8,501 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,592 in 2015 to #8,501 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Eilidh?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 134,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,501
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eilidh sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eilidh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eilidhs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eilidh was born before 2016 — so the typical Eilidh is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
275
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 39.3% of all recorded uses (108).

Is Eilidh rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+584
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,192
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+91
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
0.92×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
66.7%
Peak was 2019 (18)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,493
2019

Spellings of Eilidh

Eilidh is not the most common spelling — Lilith is, with 60.9% against Eilidh's 1.2%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Eilidh around the world

Where Eilidh ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,454
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1974–2025
    #28
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2005–2025
    #334
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2001–2025
    #608
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2023
    #2,973
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1971–2012
    #563
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Eilidh by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,501
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,192
Best rank ever
#6,493
2019
Peak year
2019
18 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
275
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Eilidh

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Eilidh

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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