Eliezer
Eliezer was given to 266 boys in 2025, #893 among boys’ names; 8,169 Americans have been recorded with it since 1947 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,860 Americans named Eliezer and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 10 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Eliezer by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Eliezer mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Eliezer is “a male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.”
From Hebrew אליעזר (eliʿézer).
/ˌɛliˈɛzə(ɹ)/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Eliezer?
#893 among boys’ names, 2025
Eliezer rose from #1,025 in 2015 to #893 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.10 to 0.16 per 1,000.
271 babies in 2025, the peak
Eliezer peaked in 2025, when 271 babies were given it (266 boys, #893 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 220 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 266 | #893 | 0.16 |
| 2024 | 220 | #1,014 | 0.13 |
| 2023 | 222 | #993 | 0.13 |
| 2022 | 211 | #1,046 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 216 | #1,019 | 0.12 |
| 2020 | 220 | #975 | 0.13 |
| 2019 | 202 | #1,028 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 194 | #1,046 | 0.11 |
| 2017 | 206 | #991 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 211 | #974 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (78)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 198 | #1,025 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 254 | #868 | 0.13 |
| 2013 | 191 | #1,025 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 192 | #1,018 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 166 | #1,111 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 196 | #999 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 203 | #978 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 210 | #955 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 208 | #950 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 174 | #1,044 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 170 | #1,003 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 166 | #995 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 170 | #959 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 159 | #989 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 135 | #1,067 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 128 | #1,096 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 125 | #1,075 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 129 | #1,043 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 131 | #986 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 137 | #944 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 100 | #1,142 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 131 | #960 | 0.07 |
| 1993 | 112 | #1,039 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 116 | #1,008 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 95 | #1,118 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 112 | #993 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 96 | #1,062 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 114 | #896 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 103 | #930 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 88 | #983 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 72 | #1,098 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 97 | #886 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 102 | #869 | 0.06 |
| 1982 | 115 | #828 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 76 | #1,047 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 80 | #1,012 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 77 | #1,013 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 61 | #1,123 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 59 | #1,129 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 46 | #1,305 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 51 | #1,185 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 58 | #1,088 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 38 | #1,361 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 46 | #1,218 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 45 | #1,242 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 43 | #1,268 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 22 | #1,778 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 35 | #1,293 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 25 | #1,548 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 24 | #1,593 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 22 | #1,683 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 21 | #1,750 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 25 | #1,599 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 31 | #1,407 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 23 | #1,698 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 22 | #1,738 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 29 | #1,474 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 19 | #1,859 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 17 | #1,974 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 27 | #1,515 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 15 | #2,074 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 11 | #2,500 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 9 | #2,770 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 12 | #2,284 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 9 | #2,722 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,832 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,092 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 11 | #2,408 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Eliezer a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Eliezer has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 78 years of records.
Girls and boys named Eliezer: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Eliezer, and how old are they?
7,860 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 8,169 Americans ever recorded as Eliezer. The median Eliezer alive today is 19 years old; half are between 10 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 8,603 people named Eliezer (82 women and girls, 8,521 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,647 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 208 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 654 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,580 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,620 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,800 |
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 Eliezer born?
The states with the most babies named Eliezer are New York, New Jersey and Texas, with 68% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 76 | #255 | 6.0× |
| New Jersey | 54 | #184 | 5.0× |
| Texas | 21 | #1,077 | 0.5× |
| California | 14 | #1,316 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 13 | #1,025 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #754 | 0.6× |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #568 | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,133 | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,145 | 0.1× |
| Indiana | 6 | #887 | 0.0× |
Where Eliezer is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Eliezer is most over-represented in New York: since 1947 it was given 6.0 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 Eliezer 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 11,032 babies since 1880, Eliezer is the most given (74% of them). In 2025 it was given to 271 of their 350 babies (77%), 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 Eliezer
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 Eliezer and names like it
- Compare Eliezer and EliazarBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sEliezer peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Eliezer since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Eliezer: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Eliezer.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Eliezer alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.