Eliya
Eliya is given to both girls and boys: 36 girls and 18 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,002 among girls’ names and #5,264 among boys’, #5,361 among all names counting both); 1,032 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,020 Americans named Eliya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Eliya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Eliya?
#4,002 among girls’ names, 2025
Eliya fell from #3,720 in 2015 to #4,002 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 23.0 to 22.4 per million.
56 babies in 2022, the peak
Eliya peaked in 2022, when 56 babies were given it (44 girls, #3,551 among girls’ names). The 54 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 96% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #4,002 | 18 | #5,264 |
| 2024 | 34 | #4,229 | 9 | #8,517 |
| 2023 | 34 | #4,214 | 12 | #7,013 |
| 2022 | 44 | #3,551 | 12 | #6,932 |
| 2021 | 43 | #3,564 | 11 | #7,236 |
| 2020 | 31 | #4,379 | 13 | #6,390 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,683 | 11 | #7,295 |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,381 | 18 | #5,156 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,109 | 6 | #11,155 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,764 | 6 | #11,117 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 41 | #3,720 | 9 | #8,236 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,850 | 9 | #8,330 |
| 2013 | 33 | #4,354 | 5 | #12,683 |
| 2012 | 45 | #3,541 | 7 | #10,018 |
| 2011 | 44 | #3,563 | 10 | #7,651 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,221 | 9 | #8,322 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,396 | 9 | #8,500 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,813 | 9 | #8,497 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,130 | 7 | #10,077 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,379 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,915 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,101 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,877 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,129 | 6 | #9,734 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,728 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,280 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,481 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,222 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,186 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,160 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,919 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Eliya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,032 Americans recorded as Eliya, 81% are girls and 19% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Eliya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Eliya, and how old are they?
1,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,032 Americans ever recorded as Eliya. The median Eliya alive today is 12 years old; half are between 6 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 787 people named Eliya (584 women and girls, 203 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 740 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 12 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 448 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 563 |
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).
Where are babies named Eliya born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 13 | #2,873 | 0.8× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Eliya with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Eliya?
Eliya is a less common spelling of Elia: SSA has recorded 1,032 Eliya and 10,159 Elia since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 376,746 babies since 1880, Eliya is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 54 of their 6,731 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 Eliya
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 Eliya and names like it
- Compare Eliya and EliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sEliya peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Eliya since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Eliya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Eliya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.