Boys' name · since 2000
Lijah
219 babies named Lijah in U.S. Social Security records since 2000, with the highest year being 2025. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #12,406 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #5,145 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 219
- born since 2000
- 2010s
- peak decade
Lijah currently ranks #5145 among boys' names in America, with 219 babies recorded since 2000.
Lijah has 219 recorded births among boys since 2000, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #5145 as of the latest data, more common than 63% of boys, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2000 to 2025.
- #12,406 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- #5,145 of 13,930 2025 SSA year
- 219 born since 2000
- 2010s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Lijah ranks #12,406 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #5,145 of 13,930 among boys' names in 2025. 219 born since 2000, peaking in the 2010s.
- #12,406 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #5,145 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 219
- born since 2000
- 2010s
- peak decade
Lijah's 219 recorded births place it above 72.69% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Lijah compares
219 40th percentile among 13,930 names currently given to boys
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked boys 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
Lijah's all-time total is 41% below the median boys name, and Liam still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Lijah | Median boys name (Takari) | #1 boys name (Liam) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 219 | 369 | 358,536 |
| Peak-year births | 19 | 34 | 22,252 |
Lijah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Lijah's SSA record in two at 2015 and the more recent half accounts for 57% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 43%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2007, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2025 peak of 19, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Lijah popularity over time - boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2000–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 19
- Annual births at peak, across 26 years of records
Lijah popularity over time - girls
10 total births recorded since 1998 (Lijah as girls' name)
Lijah by decade
2010s is the heaviest window (97 births, 44% of the file).
2010s was Lijah's strongest decade.
97 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 44% of all-time use.
Lijah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s
2000s
42 births
- 2010s
2010s
97 births
- 2020s
2020s
80 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 97 births (44% of all-time use).
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- Lijah's usage has stayed within range of its 2010s decade-level peak (97 total births) through the 2020s (80) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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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, 2000–2025 (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 Lijah 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.