Elden vs Eldora
American parents have registered 5,932 Eldens since 1880, against 4,065 Eldoras. Elden is still ahead, with 36 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Elden Eldora
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
Of the 145 years in which either name was published, Elden for 100 years and Eldora for 45 years. The lead changed hands 11 times.
Side by side
| Elden | Eldora | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 5,932 | 4,065 |
| Most in one year | 141 | 156 |
| Babies in 2025 | 36 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 2,300 | 710 |
| Median age today | 51 | 78 |
| Peak year | 1922 | 1923 |
| Best rank | 520th boys | 574th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 3,240th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1884 | 1880 |
| Girls / boys | 11 / 5,921 | 4,065 / 0 |
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 Eldoras alive today are over 78; half the Eldens are over 51. That is 27 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Elden Utah (12.0×), Idaho (9.5×), Nebraska (8.3×)
- Eldora South Dakota (11.2×), North Dakota (7.7×), Minnesota (7.3×)
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: Elden and Eldora.