Eilidh

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⭐ Famous Eilidh

Eilidh Doyle

Scottish track and field athlete

Choose Eilidh and your child shares a first name with Eilidh Doyle, a Scottish track and field athlete. A ready-made answer when someone asks “Eilidh, like who?” Eilidh Doyle's Wikipedia article is available in 20 languages, a good sign of just how widely known they are.

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Photo: filip bossuyt from Kortrijk, Belgium, CC BY 2.0 (opens in a new tab), via Wikimedia Commons

• 👶How commonAbout 1 in every 133,333 baby girls born in the US in 2025 was named Eilidh, 12 babies in all. In a typical school of 500 kids, your Eilidh would very likely be the only one.
• 📜HistoryEilidh first shows up in US birth records in 1999, the first year at least 5 babies got it. It has been in use for 26 years since.
• 🏆Best yearIts best year was 2019, when it reached #6,414.
• 🍂TrendEilidh has slipped 1,150 places over the last five years and now sits at #8,362. Good news if you want a familiar name that fewer kids will share.

About the name Eilidh

Eilidh is a girl name of Scottish origin. It has 6 letters and 2 syllables, starting with E and ending in “-idh”. US birth records list Eilidh for girls from 1999 to 2025, in 26 of those 27 years. Its best year was 2019, when it ranked #6,414 among girl names. In 2025 it ranked #8,362, with 12 babies.

Origin:Scottish names