Eleven
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ih-LEV-en
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Eleven is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “the number eleven”. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Eleven mean?
English: English number word
“the number eleven”
Inspired by Eleven, the psychokinetic girl in the Netflix series Stranger Things, first shown in 2016.
Is Eleven a girl's or a boy's name?
Eleven is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Eleven in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 11,928th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Eleven, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 12 girls. It first appears in the records in 2017.
Half of all the girls named Eleven in the US since 1880 were born between 2019 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Eleven in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,551 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,611 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,586 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,459 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,245 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,422 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,709 |
Nicknames for Eleven
- El 7 boys in the UK in 2025
- Elle 86 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Eleven
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Elowen, Elowyn, Evie, Eliza, Sevyn, Evelyn, Daisy, Klarity, Nora, Lillian, Estella, Everly
More English names
Lily, Hudson, Ivy, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Poppy, Riley, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie, Hazel, Carter
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Eleven: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/eleven, updated 20 October 2026.