Eldon vs Eldora
American parents have registered 26,157 Eldons since 1880, against 4,065 Eldoras. Eldon is still ahead, with 60 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Eldon 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, Eldon for 129 years and Eldora for 16 years. The lead changed hands 13 times.
10 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Eldon | Eldora | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 26,157 | 4,065 |
| Most in one year | 647 | 156 |
| Babies in 2025 | 60 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 8,600 | 710 |
| Median age today | 65 | 78 |
| Peak year | 1926 | 1923 |
| Best rank | 211th boys | 574th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 2,304th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1881 | 1880 |
| Girls / boys | 55 / 26,102 | 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 Eldons are over 65. That is 13 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Eldon Kansas (7.5×), Nebraska (7.1×), Iowa (6.5×)
- 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: Eldon and Eldora.