Elery
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Elery has been given to 323 babies in the U.S. since 1904. 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 1921, with 17 recorded.
Babies named Elery, 1981
1 in 577,000
Elery over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Elery?
Elery had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1981, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1981
- 1 in 577,000
- 6 of 3,459,130 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 299,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1981
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 399,616 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Elery sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1981 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 399,616 children born in 1981 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elery. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Elerys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Elery was born before 1927 — so the typical Elery is around 98 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 33.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 3.8%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 29
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 33.6% of all recorded uses (107).
Is Elery 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1921 (17)
- Years since peak
- 104
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 19.1% average annual change
Spellings of Elery
Elery is not the most common spelling — Leroy is, with 38.6% against Elery's 0.06%.
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.
Elery by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Elery
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Elery
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.