Eliyah
Eliyah is given to both girls and boys: 57 girls and 35 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,938 among girls’ names and #3,331 among boys’, #3,750 among all names counting both); 2,221 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,200 Americans named Eliyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 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 Eliyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Eliyah?
#2,938 among girls’ names, 2025
Eliyah fell from #2,509 in 2015 to #2,938 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 40.3 to 35.5 per million.
119 babies in 2024, the peak
Eliyah peaked in 2024, when 119 babies were given it (90 girls, #2,124 among girls’ names). The 92 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 77% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 57 | #2,938 | 35 | #3,331 |
| 2024 | 90 | #2,124 | 29 | #3,828 |
| 2023 | 67 | #2,628 | 34 | #3,437 |
| 2022 | 70 | #2,534 | 38 | #3,175 |
| 2021 | 67 | #2,596 | 43 | #2,875 |
| 2020 | 61 | #2,728 | 40 | #2,941 |
| 2019 | 72 | #2,463 | 44 | #2,821 |
| 2018 | 73 | #2,444 | 30 | #3,629 |
| 2017 | 52 | #3,104 | 26 | #4,015 |
| 2016 | 58 | #2,916 | 27 | #3,912 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 72 | #2,509 | 32 | #3,457 |
| 2014 | 67 | #2,621 | 28 | #3,712 |
| 2013 | 63 | #2,734 | 37 | #3,013 |
| 2012 | 56 | #3,016 | 29 | #3,636 |
| 2011 | 62 | #2,806 | 35 | #3,187 |
| 2010 | 50 | #3,267 | 25 | #4,025 |
| 2009 | 52 | #3,207 | 25 | #4,069 |
| 2008 | 60 | #2,931 | 24 | #4,173 |
| 2007 | 41 | #3,868 | 16 | #5,498 |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,183 | 21 | #4,395 |
| 2005 | 34 | #4,136 | 17 | #4,885 |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,255 | 18 | #4,648 |
| 2003 | 34 | #3,964 | 18 | #4,475 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,130 | 11 | #6,201 |
| 2001 | 31 | #4,043 | 18 | #4,343 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,576 | 11 | #6,027 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,493 | 14 | #4,838 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,159 | 14 | #4,717 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,924 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,161 | 6 | #8,247 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,846 | 5 | #9,271 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,242 | 8 | #6,534 |
| 1993 | under 5 | 5 | #9,156 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 7 | #6,898 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 5 | #8,593 |
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 Eliyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,221 Americans recorded as Eliyah, 65% are girls and 35% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Eliyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Eliyah, and how old are they?
2,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,221 Americans ever recorded as Eliyah. The median Eliyah alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,271 people named Eliyah (817 women and girls, 454 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,602 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 52 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 845 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,300 |
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 Eliyah born?
The states with the most babies named Eliyah are California, New York and Michigan, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 14 | #2,332 | 0.7× |
| New York | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,105 | 0.1× |
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 Eliyah 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 Eliyah?
Eliyah is a less common spelling of Elia: SSA has recorded 2,221 Eliyah and 10,159 Elia since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 16,082 babies since 1880, Eliyah is the second most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 92 of their 643 babies (14%), again the second 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 Eliyah
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 Eliyah and names like it
- Compare Eliyah and EliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sEliyah peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Eliyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Eliyah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Eliyah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.