Eliajah
Eliajah was last recorded in 2010, when 5 babies were given it; 52 Americans have been recorded with it between 1997 and 2010 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Eliajah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Eliajah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,815, in 2010; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
9 babies in 2000, the peak
Eliajah peaked in 2000, when 9 boys were given it, #6,993 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5 | #12,815 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 6 | #11,408 | 3.0 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,228 | 3.9 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,383 | 4.3 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,189 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 9 | #6,993 | 4.6 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,089 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,704 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Eliajah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Eliajah has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 8 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Eliajah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Eliajah, and how old are they?
An estimated 51 Americans named Eliajah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 154 people named Eliajah (3 women and girls, 151 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 51 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.0 times 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 386,829 babies since 1880, Eliajah is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 11,208 babies recorded by SSA was a Eliajah (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Eliajah
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 Eliajah and names like it
- Compare Eliajah and ElijahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sEliajah peaked in 2000.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Eliajah.
- Names starting with EMost given first.