Meaning not yet researched.
Eliah: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 37 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,329 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,329 in 2009; #3,202 in 2025. About 73% of babies named Eliah in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,202 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #2,329.
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Eliah: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 37 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,329 in 2009 · most boys in one year: 56 (2009).
In 2025, 37 US boys were named Eliah, making it the 3,202nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 338 places from #3,540 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 32 boys named Eliah in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,329, reached in 2009. That year also had the most boys given the name: 56. For comparison, it was #2,653 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 14 US girls were named Eliah, making it the 7,592nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 249 places from #7,343 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 15 girls named Eliah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #5,036, reached in 2016. That year also had the most girls given the name: 27. For comparison, it was #6,297 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Eliah in 48 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1972 with 6 babies. In all, 1,627 US babies have been given the name, 29% of them girls and 71% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 639 babies named Eliah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 434 US boys were named Eliah; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 54. In 2025 that was about 1 in 46,164 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Eli (154,512 babies since 1880), Elia (10,159 babies since 1880), Elio (5,174 babies since 1880) and Eliyahu (3,661 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ileah and Eleigh are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ileah (286), Eleigh (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Eliah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,592 | 37 | #3,202 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,343 | 32 | #3,540 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,358 | 38 | #3,191 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,747 | 42 | #2,977 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,246 | 43 | #2,875 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,924 | 53 | #2,444 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,797 | 45 | #2,775 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,599 | 39 | #3,010 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,889 | 54 | #2,396 |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,036 | 51 | #2,484 |
| 2015 | 20 | #6,297 | 46 | #2,653 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,415 | 47 | #2,592 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,084 | 34 | #3,208 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,412 | 39 | #2,972 |
| 2011 | 22 | #5,995 | 46 | #2,642 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,453 | 40 | #2,922 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,638 | 56 | #2,329 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,815 | 43 | #2,796 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,337 | 23 | #4,275 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,591 | 28 | #3,627 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,081 | 26 | #3,646 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,941 | 26 | #3,562 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,672 | 21 | #4,021 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,804 | 17 | #4,562 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,593 | 18 | #4,347 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,174 | 23 | #3,568 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,871 | 16 | #4,408 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,163 | 13 | #4,962 |
| 1997 | — | — | 17 | #3,932 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,298 | 15 | #4,238 |
| 1995 | — | — | 10 | #5,620 |
| 1994 | — | — | 6 | #8,079 |
| 1993 | — | — | 10 | #5,468 |
| 1992 | — | — | 8 | #6,301 |
| 1991 | — | — | 10 | #5,215 |
| 1985 | — | — | 8 | #4,828 |
| 1984 | — | — | 5 | #6,611 |
| 1983 | — | — | 7 | #5,082 |
| 1982 | — | — | 5 | #6,650 |
| 1981 | — | — | 6 | #5,706 |
| 1980 | — | — | 10 | #3,923 |
| 1979 | — | — | 5 | #6,336 |
| 1978 | — | — | 7 | #4,687 |
| 1977 | — | — | 8 | #4,292 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #5,120 |
| 1975 | — | — | 9 | #3,733 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,321 |
| 1972 | — | — | 6 | #4,604 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).