Elijiah
Elijiah was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,143 among boys’ names; 1,151 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,130 Americans named Elijiah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 14 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elijiah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Elijiah?
#9,143 among boys’ names, 2025
Elijiah fell from #3,911 in 2015 to #9,143 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 14.1 to 4.7 per million.
75 babies in 2008, the peak
Elijiah peaked in 2008, when 75 boys were given it, #1,920 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,143 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 15 | #5,983 | 8.7 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,631 | 7.6 |
| 2022 | 8 | #9,222 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 19 | #4,973 | 10.9 |
| 2020 | 19 | #4,904 | 11.0 |
| 2019 | 30 | #3,653 | 16.7 |
| 2018 | 19 | #4,978 | 10.5 |
| 2017 | 22 | #4,505 | 11.9 |
| 2016 | 26 | #4,024 | 13.7 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #3,911 | 14.1 |
| 2014 | 28 | #3,711 | 14.6 |
| 2013 | 48 | #2,539 | 25.4 |
| 2012 | 46 | #2,643 | 24.2 |
| 2011 | 53 | #2,387 | 27.9 |
| 2010 | 71 | #1,963 | 37.0 |
| 2009 | 65 | #2,106 | 32.8 |
| 2008 | 75 | #1,920 | 36.8 |
| 2007 | 61 | #2,195 | 29.4 |
| 2006 | 53 | #2,354 | 25.8 |
| 2005 | 51 | #2,302 | 25.5 |
| 2004 | 56 | #2,105 | 28.2 |
| 2003 | 64 | #1,849 | 32.4 |
| 2002 | 47 | #2,225 | 24.2 |
| 2001 | 44 | #2,283 | 22.6 |
| 2000 | 32 | #2,821 | 16.3 |
| 1999 | 36 | #2,475 | 18.7 |
| 1998 | 22 | #3,416 | 11.5 |
| 1997 | 23 | #3,192 | 12.2 |
| 1996 | 19 | #3,579 | 10.0 |
| 1995 | 12 | #4,878 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,195 | 5.7 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,464 | 5.1 |
| 1992 | 7 | #6,895 | 3.5 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,544 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,335 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Elijiah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elijiah has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Elijiah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elijiah, and how old are they?
1,130 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,151 Americans ever recorded as Elijiah. The median Elijiah alive today is 18 years old; half are between 14 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 998 people named Elijiah (19 women and girls, 979 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,062 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 63 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 787 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 280 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 388,115 babies since 1880, Elijiah is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 11,214 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 Elijiah
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 Elijiah and names like it
- Compare Elijiah and ElijahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sElijiah peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elijiah since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Elijiah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Elijiah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.