Eli
Eli stands at #104 nationally in 2025, drifting down from its high. The records carry it back to 1880, but its real era is now, 153,495 American children have carried it so far.
Eli’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Eli, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Eli since 1880
Eli peaked in 2012 at #43; #104 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Eli is most common
Eli is most common in Maine: 0.55% of the state's recorded boys' names in 2025. Alaska (0.48%) and West Virginia (0.39%) follow.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Eli
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Easton
#110 in 2025
Eithan
#97 in 2025
Emmett
#121 in 2025
Elian
#147 in 2025 · Latin
Enzo
#72 in 2025
Elliot
#151 in 2025
Evan
#153 in 2025 · Celtic
Ember
#154 in 2025
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About Eli
Where does Eli rank right now?
Eli stands at #104 nationally in 2025, drifting down from its high. The full curve since 1880 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
What is the recorded meaning of Eli?
No recorded meaning in the references we are allowed to cite, Eli keeps its mystery, and we keep our sourcing rule.
What names go with Eli?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Easton, Eithan and Emmett, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
Get Eli’s free Name Kit
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