Elizah — #3294 US unisex name
774 babies named Elizah in U.S. Social Security records since 1991, with the highest year being 2017. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 81% of names given to girls today.
41% of everyone ever named Elizah was born in this single decade.
48 babies were named Elizah in 2017 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Elizah
The Social Security Administration has registered 774 babies named Elizah between 1991 and 2024, spanning 34 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Elizah currently holds the #3294 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 48 babies received it in a single year. Elizah is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 570 additional births since 1899.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Elizah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 317 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Elizah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 83 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Elizah in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Elizah 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 774 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.
Elizah at a glance
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Current rank
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Elizah popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1991
- Peak year (2017)
- 48
- Annual births at peak — across 34 years of records
Currently ranks #3294 among girls.
774 total births across 34 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2017 with 48 births in a single year.
Elizah popularity over time — boys
570 total births recorded since 1899 (Elizah as boys' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The boys' variant of Elizah accounts for 42% of total recorded use across both genders.
Elizah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 317 births that decade — 41% of Elizah's all-time total
Elizah decade highlights
- Peak decade 317 births
- Runner-up 216 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Elizah's strongest decade
317 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 41% of all-time use.
Elizah by state
Where Elizah concentrates geographically — total births since 1991
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 83 | 10.7% |
| #2 | Texas | | 63 | 8.1% |
| #3 | Florida | | 17 | 2.2% |
| #4 | Michigan | | 5 | 0.6% |
| #5 | New York | | 5 | 0.6% |
| #6 | Ohio | | 5 | 0.6% |
83 of 774 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 6 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 10.7% of nationwide
- Texas 8.1% of nationwide
- Florida 2.2% of nationwide
- Michigan 0.6% of nationwide
- New York 0.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 6 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 10.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1991–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.