Elisha — #847 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Elisha

The Social Security Administration has registered 15,340 babies named Elisha between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Elisha currently holds the #847 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 392 babies received it in a single year. Elisha is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 14,307 additional births since 1914.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Elisha performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 3,461 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Elisha shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,070 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Elisha in 41 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Elisha 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 15,340 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.