Eliga
Eliga was last recorded in 1948, when 6 babies were given it; 434 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1948 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Eliga by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Eliga mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Eliga is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Eliga?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #3,415, in 1948; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
23 babies in 1917, the peak
Eliga peaked in 1917, when 23 boys were given it, #1,494 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 6 | #3,415 | 3.4 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,326 | 4.2 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,318 | 4.3 |
| 1939 | 8 | #2,668 | 7.2 |
| 1937 | 7 | #2,995 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,498 | 8.7 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,044 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 5 | #3,837 | 4.8 |
| 1932 | 5 | #3,918 | 4.8 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,525 | 9.6 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1929 | 14 | #2,123 | 13.0 |
| 1928 | 10 | #2,715 | 9.0 |
| 1927 | 10 | #2,760 | 8.9 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,459 | 10.8 |
| 1925 | 17 | #1,951 | 15.2 |
| 1924 | 7 | #3,609 | 6.2 |
| 1923 | 10 | #2,811 | 9.1 |
| 1922 | 15 | #2,169 | 13.8 |
| 1921 | 14 | #2,283 | 12.7 |
| 1920 | 16 | #2,070 | 15.0 |
| 1919 | 17 | #1,901 | 17.3 |
| 1918 | 22 | #1,616 | 21.7 |
| 1917 | 23 | #1,494 | 24.9 |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,182 | 14.6 |
| 1915 | 15 | #1,900 | 17.7 |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,006 | 16.8 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,710 | 21.5 |
| 1912 | 8 | #1,929 | 18.6 |
| 1911 | 5 | #1,815 | 22.1 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,320 | 36.6 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,157 | 45.1 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,185 | 40.8 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,098 | 47.0 |
| 1900 | 10 | #856 | 66.5 |
| 1897 | 7 | #873 | 62.1 |
| 1896 | 8 | #843 | 66.9 |
| 1895 | 8 | #814 | 68.1 |
| 1894 | 10 | #686 | 86.4 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,116 | 41.0 |
| 1891 | 8 | #721 | 79.1 |
| 1888 | 7 | #844 | 57.9 |
| 1887 | 6 | #848 | 59.2 |
| 1885 | 6 | #863 | 55.7 |
| 1884 | 7 | #796 | 61.2 |
| 1882 | 6 | #867 | 52.8 |
| 1880 | 5 | #950 | 45.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Eliga a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Eliga has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Eliga: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Eliga, and how old are they?
An estimated 15 Americans named Eliga 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 119 people named Eliga (11 women and girls, 108 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 31 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.8 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).
How common is the spelling Eliga?
Eliga is a less common spelling of Eligah: SSA has recorded 434 Eliga and 1,740 Eligah since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 4,598 babies since 1880, Eliga is the fourth most given (9.4% of them).
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 Eliga
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 Eliga and names like it
- Compare Eliga and EligahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sEliga peaked in 1917.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Eliga since 1910.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Eliga.
- Names starting with EMost given first.