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Eldar

#9,975 in 2025Boys' name

Country, society

Eldar has been given to 209 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #9,975 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Eldar, 2025

1 in 474,000

Eldar over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eldar: meaning, origin, and history

Country, society

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Eldar means

Eldar means “country, society”.

Origin, language, and formation

Eldar is used in Azerbaijani.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 209 boys were recorded with the name Eldar between 2001 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2010; its best national rank was #6,131 in 2010.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,250 in 2020 to #9,975 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,200 in 2015 to #9,975 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 Eldar?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,975
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eldar sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eldar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eldars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eldar was born before 2014 — so the typical Eldar is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
48.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
209
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 48.3% of all recorded uses (101).

Is Eldar 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
−2,059
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,725
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,775
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.64×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2010 (14)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,131
2010

Spellings of Eldar

Eldar is not the most common spelling — Edgar is, with 30.3% against Eldar's 0.04%.

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.

Eldar around the world

Where Eldar 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
    2013–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    2003–2023
    #6,123
    in 2023
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #274
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1992–1992
    #538
    in 1992

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Eldar by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,975
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,725
Best rank ever
#6,131
2010
Peak year
2010
14 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
209
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Eldar

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

EldinEldorEldrickKedarEldeanElderHaidarAdarEldoKadarEldraEldwinHaydarEldieEldrigeEldenEldadEldredgeEldaEldricCedarEldanKhadarEldrid

Sibling names for Eldar

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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