Eliu
Eliu was given to 10 boys in 2025, #7,822 among boys’ names; 537 Americans have been recorded with it since 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Eliu by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Eliu?
#7,822 among boys’ names, 2025
Eliu rose from #8,981 in 2015 to #7,822 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.2 to 5.9 per million.
19 babies in 2005, the peak
Eliu peaked in 2005, when 19 boys were given it, #4,515 among boys’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 53% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #7,822 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,515 | 5.2 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,028 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,397 | 6.3 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,108 | 8.0 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,673 | 5.8 |
| 2019 | 7 | #10,037 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 7 | #9,975 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 8 | #9,084 | 4.3 |
| 2016 | 7 | #9,953 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #8,981 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,329 | 4.7 |
| 2013 | 9 | #8,302 | 4.8 |
| 2012 | 17 | #5,308 | 9.0 |
| 2011 | 14 | #6,032 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 16 | #5,554 | 8.3 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,629 | 8.1 |
| 2008 | 18 | #5,125 | 8.8 |
| 2007 | 15 | #5,728 | 7.2 |
| 2006 | 11 | #7,058 | 5.4 |
| 2005 | 19 | #4,515 | 9.5 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,237 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,059 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 12 | #5,828 | 6.2 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,595 | 5.1 |
| 2000 | 16 | #4,638 | 8.1 |
| 1999 | 17 | #4,201 | 8.9 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,466 | 4.7 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,464 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,680 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,615 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 12 | #4,878 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 9 | #5,895 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,348 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 14 | #4,065 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,767 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,268 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,344 | 4.2 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,171 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 8 | #4,826 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,612 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,083 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,721 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,260 | 5.0 |
| 1980 | 10 | #3,924 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,266 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,293 | 4.9 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,057 | 5.1 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,306 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,675 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,193 | 3.1 |
| 1970 | 7 | #3,966 | 3.8 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,309 | 2.9 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,671 | 3.4 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,398 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Eliu a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Eliu has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Eliu: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Eliu, and how old are they?
An estimated 518 Americans named Eliu and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 14 and 35. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 955 people named Eliu (27 women and girls, 928 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 465 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 times 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 179,903 babies since 1880, Eliu is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 4,494 babies (<1%), again the eighth 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 Eliu
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 Eliu and names like it
- Compare Eliu and EliBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sEliu peaked in 2005.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Eliu since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Eliu.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Eliu alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.