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Elonda vs Eloy

American parents have registered 8,325 Eloys since 1880, against 575 Elondas. Eloy is still ahead, with 41 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Elonda against Eloy, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Elonda Eloy

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Eloy has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1908 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1969, when Elonda had 32 and Eloy had 95.

Side by side

  Elonda Eloy
Total US births 5758,325
Most in one year 33118
Babies in 2025 under 541
Estimated living today 5306,100
Median age today 5341
Peak year 19711993
Best rank 2,340th girls1,007th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked2,991st
First recorded 19501908
Girls / boys 575 / 00 / 8,325

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Elondas alive today are over 53; half the Eloys are over 41. That is 12 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Elonda and Eloy.