Eldridge

Where Eldridge comes from

Eldridge hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1867
    Eldridge R. Johnson born
    American businessman and inventor
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #505 among boys — 13 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1894
    Peak, #419
    20 babies named Eldridge — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1898
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #744.
  5. 1935
    Eldridge Cleaver born
    American activist
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Eldridge Cleaver · American activist, 1935–1998
  • Eldridge R. Johnson · American businessman and inventor, 1867–1945
  • Eldridge Recasner · American basketball player, born 1967
  • Eldridge Rojer · Dutch footballer, born 1984
  • Eldridge Dickey · American football player, 1945–2000

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.