Elroy
Elroy is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 25 births. Its best rank was 438th, in 1922.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 250.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1922192 births
- Best rank
- #438in 1922
- Since 1880
- 7,454people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,454 boys have been named Elroy in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 192 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1939, and the 1920s alone account for 21%. It has spent 72 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Elroy | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 31 | |
| 1890s | 47 | |
| 1900s | 92 | |
| 1910s | 847 | |
| 1920s | 1,541 | |
| 1930s | 1,218 | |
| 1940s | 966 | |
| 1950s | 834 | |
| 1960s | 703 | |
| 1970s | 377 | |
| 1980s | 252 | |
| 1990s | 152 | |
| 2000s | 98 | |
| 2010s | 183 | |
| 2020s | 113 |
In 1922, its biggest year
Elroy was the 438th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1922 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1922.
Names that rose and fell with Elroy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Vernonpeak 1920
- Weldonpeak 1920
- Delmarpeak 1931
- Arnoldpeak 1924
- Lylepeak 1922
- Eldenpeak 1922
- Delbertpeak 1932
- Mervinpeak 1920
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.