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Eldridge

#11,037 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Eldridge has been given to 5,247 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #11,037 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1924, with 120 recorded.

Babies named Eldridge, 2025

1 in 553,000

Eldridge over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eldridge: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Eldridge means

Eldridge is a given name.

The naming story behind Eldridge

Wikidata records Eldridge as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q96336388, 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, 5,247 boys were recorded with the name Eldridge between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 120 in 1924; its best national rank was #424 in 1894.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #10,994 in 2020 to #11,037 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,598 in 2015 to #11,037 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.

How common is Eldridge?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,037
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eldridge 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eldridge. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eldridges were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eldridge was born before 1939 — so the typical Eldridge is around 86 today.

Median birth year
1939
About 86 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
19.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,942
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 19.1% of all recorded uses (1,004).

Is Eldridge 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
−3,119
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−43
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,561
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.20×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.0%
Peak was 1924 (120)
Years since peak
101
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#424
1894

Spellings of Eldridge

Eldridge is the most-used spelling, taking 88.8% of the 5,906 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Eldridge is used

Across 1910–2025, Eldridge was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 7,143 boys, against 1 in 49,449 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

014 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 7,143
  2. 2Virginia1 in 10,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in 16,667
  4. 4Mississippi1 in 25,000
  5. 5West Virginia1 in 25,000
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 33,333
  7. 7Arkansas1 in 50,000
  8. 8Georgia1 in 50,000

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. Eldridge has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Eldridge around the world

Where Eldridge 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
    2005–2005
    #3,849
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Notable people named Eldridge

People whose public names include Eldridge, 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.

Eldridge by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,037
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 43
Best rank ever
#424
1894
Peak year
1924
120 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,247
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Eldridge

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

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Names with a curve like Eldridge

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

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Sibling names for Eldridge

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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