Elya — #6614 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Elya

The Social Security Administration has registered 379 babies named Elya between 1991 and 2024, spanning 34 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Elya currently holds the #6614 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 28 babies received it in a single year. Elya is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 244 additional births since 1983.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Elya performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 162 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Elya shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 162 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Elya in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Elya 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 379 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.