Ellijah
Ellijah was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,146 among boys’ names; 581 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ellijah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ellijah?
#9,146 among boys’ names, 2025
Ellijah fell from #6,789 in 2015 to #9,146 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.3 to 4.7 per million.
38 babies in 2008, the peak
Ellijah peaked in 2008, when 38 boys were given it, #3,067 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,146 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 12 | #6,947 | 7.0 |
| 2023 | 15 | #6,010 | 8.8 |
| 2022 | 8 | #9,225 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 18 | #5,180 | 10.3 |
| 2020 | 17 | #5,310 | 9.8 |
| 2019 | 21 | #4,674 | 11.7 |
| 2018 | 14 | #6,123 | 7.7 |
| 2017 | 16 | #5,600 | 8.6 |
| 2016 | 17 | #5,375 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #6,789 | 6.3 |
| 2014 | 12 | #6,751 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 21 | #4,508 | 11.1 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,787 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 17 | #5,265 | 9.0 |
| 2010 | 27 | #3,842 | 14.1 |
| 2009 | 25 | #4,070 | 12.6 |
| 2008 | 38 | #3,067 | 18.6 |
| 2007 | 33 | #3,325 | 15.9 |
| 2006 | 26 | #3,817 | 12.7 |
| 2005 | 28 | #3,468 | 14.0 |
| 2004 | 32 | #3,097 | 16.1 |
| 2003 | 17 | #4,660 | 8.6 |
| 2002 | 20 | #4,076 | 10.3 |
| 2001 | 23 | #3,647 | 11.8 |
| 2000 | 14 | #5,107 | 7.1 |
| 1999 | 14 | #4,839 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 20 | #3,619 | 10.5 |
| 1997 | 11 | #5,379 | 5.8 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,652 | 5.3 |
| 1995 | 9 | #6,059 | 4.7 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,075 | 3.1 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,158 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ellijah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ellijah has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ellijah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ellijah, and how old are they?
An estimated 573 Americans named Ellijah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 10 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 453 people named Ellijah (11 women and girls, 442 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 502 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Ellijah?
Ellijah is a less common spelling of Elijah: SSA has recorded 581 Ellijah and 381,915 Elijah since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 386,829 babies since 1880, Ellijah is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 11,208 babies (<1%), again the fifth 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 Ellijah
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 Ellijah and names like it
- Compare Ellijah and ElijahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sEllijah peaked in 2008.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ellijah since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Ellijah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ellijah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.