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Elden

#3,263 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Elden has been given to 5,932 babies in the U.S. since 1884. In 2025 it ranked #3,263 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1922, with 141 recorded.

Babies named Elden, 2025

1 in 92,100

Elden over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Elden: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Elden means

Elden is a given name.

The naming story behind Elden

Wikidata records Elden as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q101064818, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,921 boys were recorded with the name Elden between 1884 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 141 in 1922; its best national rank was #496 in 1934.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,090 in 2020 to #3,263 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,039 in 2015 to #3,263 in 2025.

In the United States, 11 girls were recorded with the name Elden between 1926 and 1935. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1926; its best national rank was #4,392 in 1935.

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.

How common is Elden?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 92,100
36 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 47,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,263
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
63,832 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Elden 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 63,832 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elden. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eldens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Elden was born before 1938 — so the typical Elden is around 87 today.

Median birth year
1938
About 87 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
21.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,138
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Choose a decade

1920s — 21.3% of all recorded uses (1,262).

Is Elden 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
−294
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−173
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−224
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.95×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
25.5%
Peak was 1922 (141)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#496
1934

Spellings of Elden

Elden is not the most common spelling — Allen is, with 18.8% against Elden's 0.41%.

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.

Where Elden is used

Across 1910–2025, Elden was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 7,692 boys, against 1 in 64,506 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

013 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 7,692
  2. 2Idaho1 in 10,000
  3. 3Nebraska1 in 11,111
  4. 4Kansas1 in 14,286
  5. 5Maine1 in 25,000
  6. 6North Dakota1 in 25,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 25,000
  8. 8Michigan1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Elden has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Elden around the world

Where Elden 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
    2005–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • France
    2022–2025
    #5,623
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2006–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1946–2004
    #589
    in 2004

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

Notable people named Elden

People whose public names include Elden, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Elden by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,263
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 173
Best rank ever
#496
1934
Peak year
1922
141 that year
First recorded
1884
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,921
Count in 2025
36

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,392
1935
Peak year
1926
6 that year
First recorded
1926
Last recorded
1935
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Elden

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

ElderAadenBodenEldonArdenHadenRaydenJaedenEldinKaedenJordenZadenMaddenEidenHaidenLindenEldridgeAldenAudenRydenPadenEldredKydenEden

Names with a curve like Elden

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Elden, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

HarlandWaltonRollinArlieHarmonTalmadgeJewelRupertHobertElroyHoytCletus

Sibling names for Elden

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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