Elazar
Elazar was given to 21 boys in 2025, #4,750 among boys’ names; 611 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elazar by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Elazar mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Elazar is “a male given name: alternative form of Eleazar.”
/ˈɛl.əˌzɑ(ɹ)/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Elazar?
#4,750 among boys’ names, 2025
Elazar fell from #4,433 in 2015 to #4,750 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 11.5 to 12.3 per million.
26 babies in 2003, the peak
Elazar peaked in 2003, when 26 boys were given it, #3,463 among boys’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 81% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #4,750 | 12.3 |
| 2024 | 22 | #4,595 | 12.8 |
| 2023 | 18 | #5,302 | 10.5 |
| 2022 | 19 | #5,078 | 10.9 |
| 2021 | 26 | #4,041 | 14.9 |
| 2020 | 13 | #6,387 | 7.5 |
| 2019 | 24 | #4,258 | 13.4 |
| 2018 | 18 | #5,153 | 9.9 |
| 2017 | 24 | #4,252 | 13.0 |
| 2016 | 22 | #4,509 | 11.6 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #4,433 | 11.5 |
| 2014 | 12 | #6,747 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 23 | #4,218 | 12.2 |
| 2012 | 16 | #5,543 | 8.4 |
| 2011 | 19 | #4,865 | 10.0 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,449 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 21 | #4,631 | 10.6 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,565 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 16 | #5,496 | 7.7 |
| 2006 | 22 | #4,262 | 10.7 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,265 | 5.0 |
| 2004 | 19 | #4,463 | 9.6 |
| 2003 | 26 | #3,463 | 13.2 |
| 2002 | 24 | #3,585 | 12.4 |
| 2001 | 18 | #4,340 | 9.3 |
| 2000 | 11 | #6,025 | 5.6 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,108 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 10 | #5,953 | 5.2 |
| 1997 | 8 | #6,796 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,362 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 14 | #4,342 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,193 | 5.7 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,151 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,112 | 4.0 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,261 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,339 | 4.2 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,036 | 2.7 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,683 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,860 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,141 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 5 | #5,860 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,672 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Elazar a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elazar has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Elazar: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elazar, and how old are they?
An estimated 600 Americans named Elazar and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 551 people named Elazar (6 women and girls, 545 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 488 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Elazar born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 8 | #789 | 6.9× |
Where Elazar is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Elazar is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1973 it was given 6.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Elazar with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 9,632 babies since 1880, Elazar is the third most given (6.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 289 babies (7.3%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Elazar
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Elazar and names like it
- Compare Elazar and EleazarBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sElazar peaked in 2003.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elazar since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Elazar.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Elazar alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.