Eligah
Eligah was last recorded in 2021, when 7 babies were given it; 1,740 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Eligah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Eligah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,019, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
52 babies in 1918, the peak
Eligah peaked in 1918, when 52 boys were given it, #922 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 7 | #10,019 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,585 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 8 | #8,976 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 7 | #9,939 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 6 | #11,127 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,350 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 14 | #6,030 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 8 | #9,029 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 13 | #6,537 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 11 | #7,343 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (117)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 13 | #6,364 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 13 | #6,203 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 11 | #6,759 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,127 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 16 | #4,876 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,199 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,594 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,459 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 12 | #5,406 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,091 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,705 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 15 | #4,233 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 13 | #4,593 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,570 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,625 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,793 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 9 | #4,904 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,348 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,015 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,609 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,080 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,191 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,641 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,548 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,537 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,341 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,305 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 13 | #2,656 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 8 | #3,186 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,334 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,420 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,126 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 7 | #3,452 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 9 | #2,888 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 9 | #2,891 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,680 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 12 | #2,403 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 13 | #2,246 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 14 | #2,142 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 16 | #1,986 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 16 | #1,962 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 19 | #1,743 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 20 | #1,667 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 16 | #1,885 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,051 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 18 | #1,803 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 21 | #1,570 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 19 | #1,547 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 22 | #1,452 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 17 | #1,786 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 25 | #1,394 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 21 | #1,500 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 24 | #1,377 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 25 | #1,332 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 18 | #1,631 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 22 | #1,461 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 25 | #1,332 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 31 | #1,205 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 36 | #1,106 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 15 | #1,852 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 29 | #1,267 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 24 | #1,434 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 41 | #1,084 | 0.04 |
| 1929 | 33 | #1,224 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 32 | #1,280 | 0.03 |
| 1927 | 39 | #1,149 | 0.03 |
| 1926 | 30 | #1,335 | 0.03 |
| 1925 | 22 | #1,645 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 39 | #1,159 | 0.03 |
| 1923 | 43 | #1,089 | 0.04 |
| 1922 | 38 | #1,164 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 31 | #1,337 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 23 | #1,607 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 29 | #1,330 | 0.03 |
| 1918 | 52 | #922 | 0.05 |
| 1917 | 30 | #1,244 | 0.03 |
| 1916 | 24 | #1,426 | 0.03 |
| 1915 | 32 | #1,146 | 0.04 |
| 1914 | 25 | #1,166 | 0.04 |
| 1913 | 21 | #1,123 | 0.04 |
| 1912 | 18 | #1,106 | 0.04 |
| 1911 | 13 | #940 | 0.06 |
| 1910 | 14 | #832 | 0.07 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,104 | 0.05 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,042 | 0.05 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,128 | 0.05 |
| 1906 | 9 | #870 | 0.07 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,024 | 0.05 |
| 1904 | 10 | #774 | 0.08 |
| 1903 | 7 | #935 | 0.06 |
| 1902 | 14 | #596 | 0.11 |
| 1901 | 6 | #981 | 0.06 |
| 1900 | 10 | #857 | 0.07 |
| 1899 | 8 | #805 | 0.08 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,038 | 0.05 |
| 1897 | 8 | #805 | 0.07 |
| 1895 | 7 | #907 | 0.06 |
| 1894 | 9 | #750 | 0.08 |
| 1893 | 7 | #856 | 0.06 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,117 | 0.04 |
| 1891 | 7 | #790 | 0.07 |
| 1890 | 6 | #923 | 0.05 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,010 | 0.05 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,009 | 0.05 |
| 1884 | 6 | #889 | 0.05 |
| 1882 | 7 | #776 | 0.06 |
| 1880 | 7 | #767 | 0.06 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Eligah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Eligah has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 117 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Eligah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Eligah, and how old are they?
An estimated 558 Americans named Eligah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (32% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 23 and 74. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 627 people named Eligah (5 women and girls, 622 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 651 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
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 Eligah born?
The states with the most babies named Eligah are Mississippi, South Carolina and Louisiana, with 73% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Mississippi and South Carolina and Louisiana are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 123 | not ranked | 4.3× |
| South Carolina | 93 | not ranked | 3.1× |
| Louisiana | 52 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Alabama | 40 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 30 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Arkansas | 10 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Kentucky | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Eligah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Eligah is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1910 it was given 4.3 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 Eligah 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 4,598 babies since 1880, Eligah is the most given (38% 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 Eligah
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 Eligah and names like it
- Compare Eligah and EligioBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sEligah peaked in 1918.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Eligah since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Eligah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Eligah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.