Boy
Elroy
The name Elroy carries the meaning "French le roi, the king", with roots in French. It belongs mostly to the 1920s at this point. These days, it is one of the rarer names on record. It has appeared in U.S. birth records in nearly every decade since 1900, a genuinely long run.
EtymologyVariant of Leroy
FrenchFrench "le roi" – "the king"
Births by decade
1900s
92
1910s
853
1920s
1,541
1930s
1,217
1940s
965
1950s
834
1960s
702
1970s
378
1980s
252
1990s
152
2000s
98
2010s
134
Peaked in the 1920s · 7,218 total U.S. births since 1900