Girls' name · since 2019

Elaiah

Elaiah has 19 recorded births since 2019 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2024 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.

#46,413 of 72,339
all-time among girls
#13,000 of 17,297
2025 SSA year
19
born since 2019
2020s
peak decade

Yes -- Elaiah is the #13000 most popular girls' name in the U.S. today, with 19 recorded since 2019.

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Elaiah has been recorded 19 times among girls since 2019, currently ranked #13000 nationally and more common than 25% of girls, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2019 to 2025.

  • #46,413 of 72,339 all-time among girls
  • #13,000 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
  • 19 born since 2019
  • 2020s peak decade

Data updated Aug 2026

The verdict

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Elaiah ranks #46,413 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #13,000 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 19 born since 2019, peaking in the 2020s.

#46,413 of 72,339
all-time among girls
#13,000 of 17,297
2025 SSA year
19
born since 2019
2020s
peak decade
0%100%Median name50%24.8%
Elaiah vs. every other girls name in current SSA rankings
Below the archive median
All-time archive position

Elaiah's 19 recorded births place it above 35.39% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.

National only
State-record footprint

No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.

How Elaiah compares

19 7th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls

Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.

Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data

How the numbers stack up

Elaiah's all-time total is 95% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.

Metric Elaiah Median girls name (Kyann) #1 girls name (Olivia)
All-time total births 19 376 567,345
Peak-year births 7 21 19,840

Elaiah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number

Divide Elaiah's SSA record in two at 2024 and the more recent half accounts for 74% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 26%, consistent with a name still gaining ground rather than fading. Its calmest year was 2019, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2024 peak of 7, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.

Elaiah popularity over time

Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–2025

Outside the top 1,000
Peak year (2024)
7
Annual births at peak, across 7 years of records
4.555.566.577.5 201920242025 7

Elaiah by decade

2020s is the heaviest window (14 births, 74% of the file).

2020s was Elaiah's strongest decade.

14 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 74% of all-time use.

Elaiah births by decade

Total births in each ten-year window

births

What this shows Peak: 2020s at 14 births (74% of all-time use).

Source U.S. Social Security Administration · Baby Names As of August 2026

Frequently Asked Questions

How popular is the name Elaiah?
Elaiah has been given to 19 babies in the U.S. since 2019, according to SSA data. Its archive ordinal is #46,413 of 72,339 among girls' names (total births, highest first). Among girls in 2025, it is #13,000 of 17,297. 7 babies were born in 2024, its single highest year.
Where does Elaiah sit in the SSA name archive?
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Elaiah ranks #46,413 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #13,000 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. All-time ordinal matches browse popularity (total births DESC); the current ordinal uses the 2025 SSA file. See /methodology#corpus-placement.
When was Elaiah most popular?
Elaiah was most popular in the 2020s decade with 14 total births. The single peak year was 2024.
How long has the name Elaiah been used?
The SSA has tracked Elaiah since 2019 -- 7 years through the most recent 2025 data.
What names are similar to Elaiah?
Names with a similar sound or spelling include Elaine, Elaina, Elana, Elayna, and 4 more. These share a common prefix and are also used for girls.

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Two nationwide peer axes for Elaiah: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.

Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.

Data Sources

Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).

According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.

Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2019–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).

State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).

Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Elaiah draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.