Given name & surname
Eldred
“an old, wise advisor”
Eldred is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “an old, wise advisor.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “an old, wise advisor.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1882. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Eldred through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 4,040
- 3,746 boys · 294 girls
- Most popular year
- 1921
- 168 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
Boys, girls and both
The balance of boys and girls given this name has shifted over time. Recent births are 93% boys.
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2012. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 122 in 1921. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,236 as a first name in 2020; 4,290 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Eldred’s family of names
Eldred has a feminine form in Eldreda. Eldred has a related form in Edlrud. Eldred has a related form in Eldrad.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 8
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Eldred
- Gregory PeckAmerican actor (1916–2003)
- Eldred PottingerBritish artillerist and adventurer (1811–1843)
- Eldred HenryBritish Virgin Island Athleteborn 1994
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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