Unisex name · since 2009
Elyah
21 babies named Elyah in U.S. Social Security records since 2009, with the highest year being 2024. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #45,305 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,339 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 21
- born since 2009
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yes -- Elyah is the #16339 most popular unisex name in the U.S. today, with 21 recorded since 2009.
Elyah has 21 recorded births among girls since 2009, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #16339 as of the latest data, more common than 6% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2009 to 2025.
- #45,305 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #16,339 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 21 born since 2009
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Elyah ranks #45,305 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #16,339 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 21 born since 2009, peaking in the 2020s.
- #45,305 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,339 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 21
- born since 2009
- 2020s
- peak decade
Elyah's 21 recorded births place it above 36.74% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Elyah compares
21 8th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Elyah's all-time total is 94% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Elyah | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 21 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 6 | 21 | 19,840 |
Elyah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Elyah splits its recorded history at 2024: 52% of all births land in the more recent half, 48% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 2009 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2024 peak of 6 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Elyah popularity over time - girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2009–2025
- Peak year (2024)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 17 years of records
Elyah popularity over time - boys
5 total births recorded since 2009 (Elyah as boys' name)
Elyah by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (11 births, 52% of the file).
2020s was Elyah's strongest decade.
11 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 52% of all-time use.
Elyah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s
2000s
5 births
- 2010s
2010s
5 births
- 2020s
2020s
11 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 11 births (52% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Elyah: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2024)
Similar record span (~16 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2009–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Elyah draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.