Elijha
Elijha was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,045 among boys’ names; 759 Americans have been recorded with it since 1949 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elijha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Elijha?
#11,045 among boys’ names, 2025
Elijha fell from #8,978 in 2015 to #11,045 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 4.2 to 3.5 per million.
45 babies in 2007, the peak
Elijha peaked in 2007, when 45 boys were given it, #2,695 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,045 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 6 | #11,225 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 10 | #7,925 | 5.7 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,360 | 5.1 |
| 2020 | 7 | #9,858 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,393 | 5.0 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,263 | 6.1 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,277 | 5.8 |
| 2015 | 8 | #8,978 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 18 | #5,111 | 9.4 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 19 | #4,853 | 10.0 |
| 2012 | 36 | #3,130 | 19.0 |
| 2011 | 30 | #3,538 | 15.8 |
| 2010 | 35 | #3,191 | 18.2 |
| 2009 | 44 | #2,770 | 22.2 |
| 2008 | 42 | #2,844 | 20.6 |
| 2007 | 45 | #2,695 | 21.7 |
| 2006 | 34 | #3,173 | 16.5 |
| 2005 | 34 | #3,032 | 17.0 |
| 2004 | 33 | #3,035 | 16.6 |
| 2003 | 33 | #2,943 | 16.7 |
| 2002 | 35 | #2,703 | 18.0 |
| 2001 | 31 | #2,944 | 16.0 |
| 2000 | 25 | #3,334 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 20 | #3,733 | 10.4 |
| 1998 | 19 | #3,739 | 9.9 |
| 1997 | 22 | #3,280 | 11.7 |
| 1996 | 22 | #3,227 | 11.6 |
| 1995 | 20 | #3,341 | 10.5 |
| 1994 | 12 | #4,877 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,463 | 5.1 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,734 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,642 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,627 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,795 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,579 | 4.9 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,543 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,549 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 7 | #4,996 | 4.1 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,094 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Elijha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elijha has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Elijha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elijha, and how old are they?
An estimated 742 Americans named Elijha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 16 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 808 people named Elijha (15 women and girls, 793 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 711 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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.
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 Elijha?
Elijha is a less common spelling of Elijah: SSA has recorded 759 Elijha and 381,915 Elijah since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 385,521 babies since 1880, Elijha is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 11,154 babies (<1%), again the fourth 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 Elijha
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 Elijha and names like it
- Compare Elijha and ElijahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sElijha peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elijha since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Elijha.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Elijha alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.