Eleah — #7364 US girls' name
310 babies named Eleah in U.S. Social Security records since 1983, with the highest year being 2009. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 58% of names given to girls today.
38% of everyone ever named Eleah was born in this single decade.
19 babies were named Eleah in 2009 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Eleah
The Social Security Administration has registered 310 babies named Eleah between 1983 and 2024, spanning 42 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Eleah currently holds the #7364 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2009, when 19 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Eleah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 119 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Eleah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Eleah in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Eleah in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 310 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Eleah at a glance
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Current rank
Active since
Eleah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1983
- Peak year (2009)
- 19
- Annual births at peak — across 42 years of records
Currently ranks #7364 among girls.
310 total births across 42 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2009 with 19 births in a single year.
Eleah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 119 births that decade — 38% of Eleah's all-time total
Eleah decade highlights
- Peak decade 119 births
- Runner-up 94 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Eleah's strongest decade
119 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 38% of all-time use.
Eleah by state
Where Eleah concentrates geographically — total births since 1983
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 6 | 1.9% |
6 of 310 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 1.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 1.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1983–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.