Elyjah
Elyjah was given to 52 boys in 2025, #2,545 among boys’ names; 1,961 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,940 Americans named Elyjah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elyjah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Elyjah?
#2,545 among boys’ names, 2025
Elyjah fell from #1,986 in 2015 to #2,545 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 38.1 to 30.4 per million.
124 babies in 2012, the peak
Elyjah peaked in 2012, when 124 boys were given it, #1,361 among boys’ names. The 52 births of 2025 are 42% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 52 | #2,545 | 30.4 |
| 2024 | 49 | #2,680 | 28.4 |
| 2023 | 67 | #2,153 | 39.2 |
| 2022 | 61 | #2,332 | 34.9 |
| 2021 | 58 | #2,351 | 33.2 |
| 2020 | 71 | #2,007 | 41.1 |
| 2019 | 58 | #2,344 | 32.3 |
| 2018 | 67 | #2,104 | 36.9 |
| 2017 | 67 | #2,072 | 36.2 |
| 2016 | 65 | #2,138 | 34.3 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 73 | #1,986 | 38.1 |
| 2014 | 80 | #1,850 | 41.6 |
| 2013 | 69 | #1,995 | 36.5 |
| 2012 | 124 | #1,361 | 65.4 |
| 2011 | 84 | #1,740 | 44.2 |
| 2010 | 89 | #1,721 | 46.4 |
| 2009 | 82 | #1,811 | 41.3 |
| 2008 | 100 | #1,584 | 49.0 |
| 2007 | 74 | #1,916 | 35.7 |
| 2006 | 80 | #1,745 | 38.9 |
| 2005 | 74 | #1,777 | 37.0 |
| 2004 | 81 | #1,609 | 40.8 |
| 2003 | 68 | #1,767 | 34.4 |
| 2002 | 56 | #1,979 | 28.8 |
| 2001 | 44 | #2,284 | 22.6 |
| 2000 | 36 | #2,581 | 18.3 |
| 1999 | 31 | #2,742 | 16.1 |
| 1998 | 36 | #2,407 | 18.8 |
| 1997 | 18 | #3,780 | 9.5 |
| 1996 | 22 | #3,228 | 11.6 |
| 1995 | 18 | #3,590 | 9.5 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,194 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Elyjah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elyjah has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Elyjah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elyjah, and how old are they?
1,940 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,961 Americans ever recorded as Elyjah. The median Elyjah alive today is 15 years old; half are between 9 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 1,221 people named Elyjah (26 women and girls, 1,195 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,605 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 45 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,060 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 831 |
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).
Where are babies named Elyjah born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 6 | #2,274 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 5 | #2,683 | 0.7× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Elyjah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Elyjah?
Elyjah is a less common spelling of Elijah: SSA has recorded 1,961 Elyjah and 381,915 Elijah since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 386,966 babies since 1880, Elyjah is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 52 of their 11,208 babies (<1%), again the second 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 Elyjah
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 Elyjah and names like it
- Compare Elyjah and ElijahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sElyjah peaked in 2012.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elyjah since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Elyjah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Elyjah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.