Eliyahu
Eliyahu was given to 162 boys in 2025, #1,236 among boys’ names; 3,661 Americans have been recorded with it since 1956 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,590 Americans named Eliyahu and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 7 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Eliyahu by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Eliyahu?
#1,236 among boys’ names, 2025
Eliyahu rose from #1,298 in 2015 to #1,236 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 71.5 to 94.8 per million.
162 babies in 2025, the peak
Eliyahu peaked in 2025, when 162 boys were given it, #1,236 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 158 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 162 | #1,236 | 94.8 |
| 2024 | 158 | #1,252 | 91.7 |
| 2023 | 145 | #1,317 | 84.8 |
| 2022 | 137 | #1,368 | 78.5 |
| 2021 | 124 | #1,456 | 70.9 |
| 2020 | 119 | #1,454 | 68.9 |
| 2019 | 119 | #1,463 | 66.3 |
| 2018 | 110 | #1,540 | 60.6 |
| 2017 | 104 | #1,571 | 56.2 |
| 2016 | 130 | #1,369 | 68.5 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 137 | #1,298 | 71.5 |
| 2014 | 121 | #1,400 | 63.0 |
| 2013 | 123 | #1,372 | 65.0 |
| 2012 | 109 | #1,481 | 57.5 |
| 2011 | 126 | #1,345 | 66.3 |
| 2010 | 115 | #1,444 | 59.9 |
| 2009 | 111 | #1,500 | 56.0 |
| 2008 | 94 | #1,645 | 46.1 |
| 2007 | 80 | #1,817 | 38.5 |
| 2006 | 76 | #1,811 | 37.0 |
| 2005 | 94 | #1,515 | 47.1 |
| 2004 | 65 | #1,887 | 32.7 |
| 2003 | 64 | #1,850 | 32.4 |
| 2002 | 78 | #1,572 | 40.2 |
| 2001 | 65 | #1,747 | 33.5 |
| 2000 | 48 | #2,094 | 24.4 |
| 1999 | 52 | #1,883 | 27.1 |
| 1998 | 38 | #2,316 | 19.9 |
| 1997 | 48 | #1,911 | 25.5 |
| 1996 | 58 | #1,656 | 30.6 |
| 1995 | 45 | #1,890 | 23.6 |
| 1994 | 44 | #1,897 | 22.8 |
| 1993 | 53 | #1,660 | 27.0 |
| 1992 | 44 | #1,858 | 22.0 |
| 1991 | 40 | #1,924 | 19.8 |
| 1990 | 45 | #1,757 | 21.9 |
| 1989 | 31 | #2,206 | 15.5 |
| 1988 | 31 | #2,047 | 16.2 |
| 1987 | 33 | #1,902 | 17.7 |
| 1986 | 29 | #2,020 | 15.7 |
| 1985 | 31 | #1,879 | 16.8 |
| 1984 | 30 | #1,851 | 16.6 |
| 1983 | 20 | #2,437 | 11.2 |
| 1982 | 15 | #3,012 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 14 | #3,087 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 15 | #2,997 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 14 | #3,052 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 13 | #3,112 | 7.9 |
| 1977 | 10 | #3,681 | 6.1 |
| 1976 | 12 | #3,140 | 7.6 |
| 1975 | 10 | #3,505 | 6.4 |
| 1974 | 12 | #3,000 | 7.6 |
| 1973 | 12 | #2,899 | 7.7 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,419 | 5.6 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,560 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,610 | 4.3 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,700 | 3.9 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,230 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,198 | 2.3 |
| 1956 | 8 | #3,037 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Eliyahu a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Eliyahu has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Eliyahu: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Eliyahu, and how old are they?
3,590 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,661 Americans ever recorded as Eliyahu. The median Eliyahu alive today is 15 years old; half are between 7 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 2,364 people named Eliyahu (8 women and girls, 2,356 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,795 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 13 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 116 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 537 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,240 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,680 |
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 Eliyahu born?
The states with the most babies named Eliyahu are New Jersey, New York and Florida, with 88% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 72 | #134 | 10.3× |
| New York | 44 | #392 | 6.8× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,520 | 0.4× |
| Maryland | 6 | #734 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,331 | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,292 | 0.0× |
Where Eliyahu is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Eliyahu is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1956 it was given 10.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Eliyahu with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 6,653 babies since 1880, Eliyahu is the most given (55% of them). In 2025 it was given to 162 of their 233 babies (70%), again the 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 Eliyahu
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 Eliyahu and names like it
- Compare Eliyahu and EliahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sEliyahu peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Eliyahu since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Eliyahu.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Eliyahu alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.