Elijah — #8 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Elijah

The Social Security Administration has registered 369,304 babies named Elijah between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Elijah currently holds the #8 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2011, when 13,997 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Elijah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 137,093 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Elijah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 40,271 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Elijah in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Elijah 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 369,304 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.