Eliejah — boys' name
15 babies named Eliejah in U.S. Social Security records since 2002, with the highest year being 2002. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
67% of everyone ever named Eliejah was born in this single decade.
5 babies were named Eliejah in 2002 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Eliejah
The Social Security Administration has registered 15 babies named Eliejah between 2002 and 2014, spanning 13 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Eliejah currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 5 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Eliejah performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 10 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Eliejah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Eliejah 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 15 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.
Eliejah at a glance
Last recorded 2014Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Eliejah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2014–2002
- Peak year (2002)
- 5
- Annual births at peak — across 13 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2014.
15 total births across 13 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2002 with 5 births in a single year.
Eliejah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 10 births that decade — 67% of Eliejah's all-time total
Eliejah decade highlights
- Peak decade 10 births
- Runner-up 5 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Eliejah's strongest decade
10 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 67% of all-time use.
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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, 2002–2014 (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.