Elizar
Elizar was given to 10 boys in 2025, #7,824 among boys’ names; 142 Americans have been recorded with it since 1955 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elizar by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Elizar?
#7,824 among boys’ names, 2025
Elizar rose from #11,077 in 2015 to #7,824 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.1 to 5.9 per million.
15 babies in 2022, the peak
Elizar peaked in 2022, when 15 boys were given it, #5,942 among boys’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 67% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #7,824 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 6 | #11,314 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,406 | 6.4 |
| 2022 | 15 | #5,942 | 8.6 |
| 2021 | 10 | #7,758 | 5.7 |
| 2020 | 6 | #10,998 | 3.5 |
| 2018 | 7 | #9,977 | 3.9 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,118 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 6 | #11,077 | 3.1 |
| 2012 | 6 | #11,205 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 6 | #11,236 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 5 | #12,820 | 2.6 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,178 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,584 | 4.9 |
| 2005 | 5 | #11,960 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,353 | 4.0 |
| 2003 | 7 | #8,937 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,775 | 2.8 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,019 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Elizar a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elizar has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 19 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Elizar: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elizar, and how old are they?
An estimated 138 Americans named Elizar and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 4 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 378 people named Elizar (21 women and girls, 357 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 83 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 17,742 babies since 1880, Elizar is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 560 babies (1.8%), again the sixth 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 Elizar
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 Elizar and names like it
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