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Eleri

Girls' name

English equivalent of Hilary

Eleri has been given to 192 babies in the U.S. since 1999. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2008, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Eleri, 2024

1 in 557,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eleri: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Hilary

Latin

What Eleri means

Eleri is a English equivalent of Hilary.

Origin, language, and formation

Eleri is used in Welsh. Its origins include Latin.

Eleri comes through Latin Hilarius.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hilary.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Welsh, Eleri is pronounced /ɛˈlɛrɪ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 192 girls were recorded with the name Eleri between 1999 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 20 in 2008; its best national rank was #6,627 in 2008.

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 Eleri?

Eleri had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 270,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eleri 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eleri. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eleris were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eleri was born before 2008 — so the typical Eleri is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
55.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
192
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Choose a decade

2000s — 55.7% of all recorded uses (107).

Is Eleri 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2008 (20)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,627
2008

Spellings of Eleri

Eleri is not the most common spelling — Lori is, with 42.0% against Eleri's 0.02%.

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.

Eleri around the world

Where Eleri 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
    #747
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1996–1996
    #712
    in 1996

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Eleri by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,627
2008
Peak year
2008
20 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
192
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Eleri

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

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Sibling names for Eleri

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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