Elizah
Elizah was given to 41 girls in 2025, #3,662 among girls’ names; 1,385 Americans have been recorded with it since 1899 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,190 Americans named Elizah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 7 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elizah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Elizah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Elizah is “a female given name from Hebrew”
Variant of Eliza.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Elizah?
#3,662 among girls’ names, 2025
Elizah rose from #4,168 in 2015 to #3,662 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 19.6 to 25.5 per million.
55 babies in 2017, the peak
Elizah peaked in 2017, when 55 babies were given it (48 girls, #3,318 among girls’ names). The 41 births of 2025 are 75% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41 | #3,662 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 48 | #3,297 | 5 | #12,848 |
| 2023 | 43 | #3,611 | 9 | #8,433 |
| 2022 | 44 | #3,552 | 7 | #10,107 |
| 2021 | 40 | #3,755 | 6 | #11,151 |
| 2020 | 41 | #3,635 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,190 | 7 | #10,038 |
| 2018 | 34 | #4,176 | 9 | #8,347 |
| 2017 | 48 | #3,318 | 7 | #9,997 |
| 2016 | 36 | #4,110 | 10 | #7,756 |
Every recorded year (78)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 35 | #4,168 | 7 | #9,847 |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,201 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,257 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,746 | 8 | #9,100 |
| 2011 | 28 | #4,961 | 9 | #8,262 |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,517 | 7 | #9,970 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,261 | 10 | #7,866 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,508 | 8 | #9,232 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,484 | 17 | #5,264 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,196 | 9 | #8,190 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,610 | 9 | #7,819 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,621 | 10 | #7,129 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,878 | 12 | #5,974 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,216 | 13 | #5,491 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,861 | 17 | #4,539 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,281 | 6 | #9,449 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,982 | 18 | #4,036 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,512 | 11 | #5,572 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,251 | 13 | #4,737 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,162 | 9 | #6,139 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,266 | 11 | #5,238 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,232 | 9 | #5,896 |
| 1992 | under 5 | 5 | #8,821 | |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,800 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 5 | #8,269 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 6 | #6,172 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 6 | #5,799 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 5 | #6,545 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 5 | #6,651 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 6 | #5,709 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 8 | #4,622 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 10 | #3,890 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 6 | #3,757 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 6 | #3,752 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 8 | #3,179 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 5 | #4,105 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 6 | #3,620 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 5 | #3,969 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 9 | #2,724 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 5 | #3,839 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 5 | #3,832 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 12 | #2,279 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 7 | #2,820 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 10 | #2,355 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 6 | #3,328 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 5 | #3,655 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 9 | #2,533 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 5 | #3,632 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 7 | #3,046 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 5 | #3,807 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 5 | #3,920 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 5 | #3,935 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 7 | #3,382 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 5 | #4,141 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 6 | #3,829 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 7 | #3,555 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 6 | #3,839 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 7 | #3,610 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 13 | #2,365 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 12 | #2,525 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 7 | #3,621 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 6 | #3,954 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 5 | #4,342 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 7 | #3,470 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 6 | #3,611 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 5 | #3,390 | |
| 1900 | under 5 | 5 | #1,369 | |
| 1899 | under 5 | 6 | #963 |
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 Elizah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,385 Americans recorded as Elizah, 59% are girls and 41% boys. In 2025 it went to 41 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Elizah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elizah, and how old are they?
1,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 86% of the 1,385 Americans ever recorded as Elizah. The median Elizah alive today is 15 years old; half are between 7 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 788 people named Elizah (476 women and girls, 312 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 941 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 17 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 43 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 17 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 89 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 476 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 548 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 74,305 babies since 1880, Elizah is the second most given (1.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 41 of their 2,502 babies (1.6%), the third most given that year.
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 Elizah
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 Elizah and names like it
- Compare Elizah and ElizaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sElizah peaked in 2017.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elizah since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Elizah: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Elizah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Elizah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.