US BIRTHS · 1880–2025

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Eli name popularity

Eli has been given to 154,512 babies in the United States since 1880.

It peaked in 2012, when 8,110 babies got the name, and its best rank was #61 in 2012.

In 2025, 3,453 babies were named Eli (#177 in the country), 57% below the peak. That is down 52% from 2015.

Almost every Eli is a boy.

An estimated 145K people named Eli are alive in the US today, with a median age of 13.

It was a top-100 name in 11 of the 146 years on record.

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The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.

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