Eliel
Eliel was given to 503 boys in 2025, #586 among boys’ names; 4,931 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,880 Americans named Eliel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 3 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Eliel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Eliel mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Eliel is “a male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.” Its etymology gives the sense “El is my lord” (אֱלִיאֵל).
From Hebrew אֱלִיאֵל ('ĕlī'ēl, “El is my lord”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Eliel?
#586 among boys’ names, 2025
Eliel rose from #1,420 in 2015 to #586 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.06 to 0.29 per 1,000.
503 babies in 2025, the peak
Eliel peaked in 2025, when 503 boys were given it, #586 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 489 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 503 | #586 | 0.29 |
| 2024 | 489 | #584 | 0.28 |
| 2023 | 292 | #834 | 0.17 |
| 2022 | 306 | #814 | 0.18 |
| 2021 | 275 | #854 | 0.16 |
| 2020 | 325 | #746 | 0.19 |
| 2019 | 400 | #662 | 0.22 |
| 2018 | 170 | #1,136 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 116 | #1,461 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 126 | #1,393 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 121 | #1,420 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 128 | #1,346 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 132 | #1,309 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 125 | #1,355 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 128 | #1,328 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 112 | #1,463 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 106 | #1,548 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 138 | #1,267 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 150 | #1,180 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 158 | #1,108 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 145 | #1,128 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 77 | #1,675 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 42 | #2,482 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 38 | #2,565 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 33 | #2,819 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 26 | #3,228 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 29 | #2,886 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 10 | #5,955 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 21 | #3,377 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 26 | #2,853 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 16 | #3,914 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,569 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 21 | #3,172 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 18 | #3,493 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 11 | #4,858 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 19 | #3,198 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 12 | #4,343 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,342 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,499 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 11 | #3,869 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,673 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,190 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,705 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,690 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,093 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,720 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Eliel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Eliel has been given almost only to boys: 9 girls in 46 years of records.
Girls and boys named Eliel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Eliel, and how old are they?
4,880 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,931 Americans ever recorded as Eliel. The median Eliel alive today is 7 years old; half are between 3 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 2,959 people named Eliel (46 women and girls, 2,913 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,785 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 19 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 172 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,320 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,370 |
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 Eliel born?
The states with the most babies named Eliel are Texas, California and New York, with 35% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 72 | #465 | 1.4× |
| California | 50 | #594 | 1.1× |
| New York | 40 | #429 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 28 | #605 | 1.2× |
| New Jersey | 22 | #369 | 1.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 22 | #464 | 0.9× |
| Maryland | 22 | #251 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 20 | #501 | 0.7× |
| Arizona | 19 | #401 | 0.8× |
| Massachusetts | 18 | #312 | 1.6× |
Where Eliel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Eliel is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1975 it was given 1.6 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 Eliel 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 6,078 babies since 1880, Eliel is the most given (81% of them). In 2025 it was given to 503 of their 510 babies (99%), again the 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 Eliel
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 Eliel and names like it
- Compare Eliel and EuelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sEliel peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Eliel since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Eliel: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Eliel.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Eliel alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.