Elijahjames — boys' name
140 babies named Elijahjames in U.S. Social Security records since 1996, with the highest year being 2015. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
46% of everyone ever named Elijahjames was born in this single decade.
10 babies were named Elijahjames in 2015 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Elijahjames
The Social Security Administration has registered 140 babies named Elijahjames between 1996 and 2023, spanning 28 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Elijahjames currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 10 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Elijahjames performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 65 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Elijahjames shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Elijahjames in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Elijahjames 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 140 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.
Elijahjames at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Elijahjames popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1996
- Peak year (2015)
- 10
- Annual births at peak — across 28 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
140 total births across 28 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2015 with 10 births in a single year.
Elijahjames by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 65 births that decade — 46% of Elijahjames's all-time total
Elijahjames decade highlights
- Peak decade 65 births
- Runner-up 34 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Elijahjames's strongest decade
65 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 46% of all-time use.
Elijahjames by state
Where Elijahjames concentrates geographically — total births since 1996
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 5 | 3.6% |
5 of 140 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 3.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 3.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1996–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.