Eliah
Eliah is given to both girls and boys: 14 girls and 37 boys were given it in 2025 (#7,590 among girls’ names and #3,201 among boys’, #5,555 among all names counting both); 1,627 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,600 Americans named Eliah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Eliah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Eliah mean?
Wiktionary, Swedish section
Eliah is “a male given name, more common in the form Elias”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swedish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Eliah?
#3,201 among boys’ names, 2025
Eliah fell from #2,652 in 2015 to #3,201 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 24.0 to 21.7 per million.
78 babies in 2016, the peak
Eliah peaked in 2016, when 78 babies were given it (51 boys, #2,484 among boys’ names). The 51 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 65% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,590 | 37 | #3,201 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,339 | 32 | #3,538 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,353 | 38 | #3,189 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,742 | 42 | #2,975 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,242 | 43 | #2,874 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,920 | 53 | #2,443 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,793 | 45 | #2,774 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,595 | 39 | #3,008 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,885 | 54 | #2,395 |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,035 | 51 | #2,484 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #6,295 | 46 | #2,652 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,412 | 47 | #2,590 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,081 | 34 | #3,206 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,409 | 39 | #2,970 |
| 2011 | 22 | #5,992 | 46 | #2,641 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,450 | 40 | #2,921 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,635 | 56 | #2,328 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,812 | 43 | #2,795 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,333 | 23 | #4,273 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,589 | 28 | #3,625 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,076 | 26 | #3,642 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,935 | 26 | #3,558 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,667 | 21 | #4,016 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,798 | 17 | #4,556 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,586 | 18 | #4,341 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,166 | 23 | #3,562 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,865 | 16 | #4,403 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,157 | 13 | #4,956 |
| 1997 | under 5 | 17 | #3,927 | |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,292 | 15 | #4,232 |
| 1995 | under 5 | 10 | #5,614 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 6 | #8,073 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 10 | #5,462 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 8 | #6,294 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 10 | #5,208 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 8 | #4,823 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 5 | #6,607 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 7 | #5,079 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 5 | #6,648 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 6 | #5,704 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 10 | #3,922 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 5 | #6,334 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 7 | #4,684 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 8 | #4,290 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 6 | #5,118 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 9 | #3,731 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 5 | #5,319 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 6 | #4,602 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Eliah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,627 Americans recorded as Eliah, 29% are girls and 71% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Eliah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Eliah, and how old are they?
1,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,627 Americans ever recorded as Eliah. The median Eliah alive today is 14 years old; half are between 7 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 1,324 people named Eliah (372 women and girls, 952 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,287 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 51 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 92 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 672 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 788 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Eliah born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 7 | #1,518 | 0.4× |
| California | 6 | #2,270 | 0.9× |
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 Eliah 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 170,811 babies since 1880, Eliah is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 51 of their 4,585 babies (1.1%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Eliah
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 Eliah and names like it
- Compare Eliah and EliBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sEliah peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Eliah since 1910.
- Swedish namesWiktionary’s origin for Eliah: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Eliah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Eliah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.