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Eligh

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Eligh is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 9 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
90.00% of boys
Peak year
201461 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1906
1,012people given the name
Babies named Eligh, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

1,012 boys have been named Eligh in the United States since 1906, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2014, with 61 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2010, and the 2010s alone account for 45%.

By decade

Decadeboys named Eligh
1900s6
1910s58
1920s87
1930s60
1940s5
1950s12
1990s13
2000s228
2010s457
2020s86

In 2014, its biggest year

Eligh was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2014 were Noah, Liam, Mason, Jacob and William. See all of 2014.

Names that rose and fell with Eligh

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.