Elden
Elden is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 42 births. Its best rank was 496th, in 1934.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 420.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1922141 births
- Best rank
- #496in 1934
- Since 1884
- 5,885people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,885 boys have been named Elden in the United States since 1884, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 141 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1937, and the 1920s alone account for 21%. It has spent 56 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Elden | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 15 | |
| 1890s | 41 | |
| 1900s | 74 | |
| 1910s | 731 | |
| 1920s | 1,262 | |
| 1930s | 991 | |
| 1940s | 669 | |
| 1950s | 525 | |
| 1960s | 335 | |
| 1970s | 193 | |
| 1980s | 131 | |
| 1990s | 151 | |
| 2000s | 211 | |
| 2010s | 358 | |
| 2020s | 198 |
In 1922, its biggest year
Elden was the 520th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1922 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1922.
Names that rose and fell with Elden
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Elroypeak 1922
- Delmarpeak 1931
- Eldonpeak 1926
- Harlandpeak 1922
- Weldonpeak 1920
- Elwynpeak 1924
- Maynardpeak 1922
- Norbertpeak 1924
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.