In 2025, 54 US boys were named Eliab, making it the 2,491st most common boys’ name of the year, down 39 places from #2,452 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 56 boys named Eliab in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,723, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 98. For comparison, it was #3,254 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Eliab in 34 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1989 with 6 babies. In all, 945 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 381 babies named Eliab.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 559 US boys were named Eliab; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 98. In 2025 that was about 1 in 31,631 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Eliab ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #1,406 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.