Popularity of the name Eloise, 1880–2025
Eloise has never been more popular than it is now: in 2025, 4,251 girls were named Eloise, about 1 in 380 girls born in the U.S. that year, ranking #49. In all, Social Security counts 72,699 girls named Eloise since 1880. Social Security’s records also list 116 boys named Eloise.
- Peak year
- 2025
- Rank in 2025
- #49
- Babies in 2025
- 4,251
- Total since 1880
- 72,699
Where it stands now
In the past decade the name climbed from #254 in 2015 to #49 in 2025: 1,265 girls got it in 2015, and 4,251 in 2025.
Decade by decade
Its best decade is the 2020s so far, when 18,040 girls were named Eloise, #77 for the decade. It started at #420 in the 1880s.
Every 20 years in the records: 11 in 1880 (#518), 107 in 1900 (#327), 1,239 in 1920 (#178), 512 in 1940 (#277), 187 in 1960 (#747), 29 in 1980 (#3,002), 59 in 2000 (#2,545) and 1,970 in 2020 (#137).
Highs and lows
The most girls given the name in a single year was 4,251, in 2025. Its best rank, #49, came in its peak year.
Every year
The table lists every year from 1880 to 2025 in which Social Security recorded at least 5 girls named Eloise, with the name’s rank that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 11 | #518 |
| 1881 | 14 | #447 |
| 1882 | 12 | #530 |
| 1883 | 18 | #451 |
| 1884 | 19 | #463 |
| 1885 | 30 | #373 |
| 1886 | 38 | #346 |
| 1887 | 31 | #390 |
| 1888 | 34 | #425 |
| 1889 | 35 | #410 |
| 1890 | 46 | #369 |
| 1891 | 46 | #365 |
| 1892 | 56 | #351 |
| 1893 | 52 | #374 |
| 1894 | 56 | #372 |
| 1895 | 57 | #372 |
| 1896 | 77 | #332 |
| 1897 | 68 | #354 |
| 1898 | 91 | #328 |
| 1899 | 92 | #312 |
| 1900 | 107 | #327 |
| 1901 | 88 | #320 |
| 1902 | 124 | #280 |
| 1903 | 134 | #264 |
| 1904 | 120 | #294 |
| 1905 | 151 | #267 |
| 1906 | 176 | #244 |
| 1907 | 196 | #239 |
| 1908 | 201 | #239 |
| 1909 | 243 | #230 |
| 1910 | 273 | #234 |
| 1911 | 324 | #219 |
| 1912 | 474 | #202 |
| 1913 | 529 | #202 |
| 1914 | 663 | #198 |
| 1915 | 798 | #207 |
| 1916 | 953 | #187 |
| 1917 | 964 | #191 |
| 1918 | 1,063 | #189 |
| 1919 | 1,030 | #188 |
| 1920 | 1,239 | #178 |
| 1921 | 1,379 | #164 |
| 1922 | 1,222 | #179 |
| 1923 | 1,193 | #181 |
| 1924 | 1,212 | #185 |
| 1925 | 1,212 | #180 |
| 1926 | 1,208 | #175 |
| 1927 | 1,162 | #180 |
| 1928 | 1,082 | #190 |
| 1929 | 1,013 | #194 |
| 1930 | 1,023 | #189 |
| 1931 | 926 | #197 |
| 1932 | 867 | #208 |
| 1933 | 819 | #210 |
| 1934 | 719 | #235 |
| 1935 | 729 | #230 |
| 1936 | 611 | #250 |
| 1937 | 636 | #250 |
| 1938 | 608 | #256 |
| 1939 | 531 | #269 |
| 1940 | 512 | #277 |
| 1941 | 584 | #266 |
| 1942 | 746 | #250 |
| 1943 | 715 | #259 |
| 1944 | 597 | #281 |
| 1945 | 546 | #292 |
| 1946 | 608 | #296 |
| 1947 | 580 | #327 |
| 1948 | 512 | #343 |
| 1949 | 483 | #359 |
| 1950 | 524 | #341 |
| 1951 | 488 | #365 |
| 1952 | 432 | #400 |
| 1953 | 438 | #408 |
| 1954 | 355 | #469 |
| 1955 | 331 | #508 |
| 1956 | 348 | #503 |
| 1957 | 310 | #544 |
| 1958 | 232 | #647 |
| 1959 | 218 | #677 |
| 1960 | 187 | #747 |
| 1961 | 177 | #788 |
| 1962 | 183 | #767 |
| 1963 | 163 | #811 |
| 1964 | 126 | #940 |
| 1965 | 138 | #854 |
| 1966 | 103 | #1,017 |
| 1967 | 85 | #1,147 |
| 1968 | 84 | #1,177 |
| 1969 | 59 | #1,546 |
| 1970 | 69 | #1,464 |
| 1971 | 63 | #1,546 |
| 1972 | 50 | #1,749 |
| 1973 | 55 | #1,647 |
| 1974 | 29 | #2,556 |
| 1975 | 38 | #2,196 |
| 1976 | 37 | #2,255 |
| 1977 | 22 | #3,366 |
| 1978 | 27 | #2,942 |
| 1979 | 39 | #2,387 |
| 1980 | 29 | #3,002 |
| 1981 | 48 | #2,119 |
| 1982 | 41 | #2,369 |
| 1983 | 34 | #2,595 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,423 |
| 1985 | 29 | #3,084 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,757 |
| 1987 | 30 | #3,101 |
| 1988 | 28 | #3,393 |
| 1989 | 29 | #3,477 |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,714 |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,208 |
| 1992 | 27 | #3,866 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,100 |
| 1994 | 44 | #2,752 |
| 1995 | 39 | #2,977 |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,723 |
| 1997 | 36 | #3,224 |
| 1998 | 53 | #2,570 |
| 1999 | 54 | #2,610 |
| 2000 | 59 | #2,545 |
| 2001 | 78 | #2,115 |
| 2002 | 88 | #1,984 |
| 2003 | 103 | #1,813 |
| 2004 | 148 | #1,404 |
| 2005 | 165 | #1,328 |
| 2006 | 179 | #1,307 |
| 2007 | 191 | #1,283 |
| 2008 | 265 | #998 |
| 2009 | 297 | #911 |
| 2010 | 553 | #527 |
| 2011 | 679 | #449 |
| 2012 | 860 | #363 |
| 2013 | 955 | #337 |
| 2014 | 1,081 | #302 |
| 2015 | 1,265 | #254 |
| 2016 | 1,567 | #208 |
| 2017 | 1,630 | #190 |
| 2018 | 1,743 | #167 |
| 2019 | 1,902 | #149 |
| 2020 | 1,970 | #137 |
| 2021 | 2,547 | #109 |
| 2022 | 2,905 | #86 |
| 2023 | 2,924 | #81 |
| 2024 | 3,443 | #64 |
| 2025 | 4,251 | #49 |
How these numbers are counted
Social Security publishes, for every year since 1880, how many babies of each sex were given each name, counting any name given to at least 5. A name’s rank is its place that year among names for the same sex, by number of babies. Names with the same count share a rank here, while Social Security’s own lists break ties alphabetically, so a rank can differ from theirs by a place or two. A name’s share is the number of babies given it divided by all babies of that sex in the data that year, and its peak is the year that share was highest. Shares rather than counts set the peak, because far more babies were born in some years than others: counting babies alone would pull nearly every name’s peak toward the 1946–1964 baby boom.
Source: the U.S. Social Security Administration’s national baby name data, from Social Security card applications for babies born in the U.S. A name is left out of a year when fewer than 5 babies of one sex got it, and counts before about 1937 are incomplete, because many people born then never applied for a card. See how Baby Boom builds its data. Figures may contain errors.