Meaning not yet researched.
Eliel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 503 in 2025. Its best rank was #584 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #584 in 2024; #586 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Eliel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#586 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #584.
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Eliel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 503 boys in 2025. Peak: #584 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 503 (2025).
In 2025, 503 US boys were named Eliel, making it the 586th most common boys’ name of the year, down 2 places from #584 in 2024. That is 14 more than the 489 boys named Eliel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #584, reached in 2024. The most boys given the name in a single year was 503, in 2025. For comparison, it was #1,420 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Eliel in 46 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 5 babies. In all, 4,931 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 2,199 babies named Eliel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,002 US boys were named Eliel; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 503. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,396 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Eliel ranked highest in Delaware in 2025, at #220 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Elliel 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Elliel (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 Eliel in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 23 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delaware | 5 | #220 | — |
| Maryland | 22 | #251 | — |
| Massachusetts | 18 | #312 | — |
| Connecticut | 9 | #337 | — |
| New Jersey | 22 | #369 | #1,010 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #379 | — |
| Arizona | 19 | #401 | — |
| Colorado | 15 | #407 | — |
| New York | 40 | #429 | #1,179 |
| Iowa | 7 | #461 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 22 | #464 | — |
| Texas | 72 | #465 | #1,045 |
| North Carolina | 20 | #501 | — |
| Illinois | 18 | #534 | #1,220 |
| Nevada | 5 | #535 | — |
| Utah | 7 | #575 | — |
| Washington | 12 | #584 | #1,000 |
| California | 50 | #594 | #1,173 |
| Florida | 28 | #605 | #1,126 |
| Kansas | 5 | #619 | — |
| South Carolina | 7 | #625 | — |
| Georgia | 16 | #635 | — |
| Missouri | 8 | #671 | — |
| Virginia | 10 | #692 | #919 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #728 | — |
| Tennessee | 7 | #867 | — |
| Ohio | 8 | #965 | — |
| Indiana | 5 | #983 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 503 | #586 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,514 | 489 | #584 |
| 2023 | — | — | 292 | #834 |
| 2022 | — | — | 306 | #814 |
| 2021 | — | — | 275 | #854 |
| 2020 | — | — | 325 | #746 |
| 2019 | — | — | 400 | #662 |
| 2018 | — | — | 170 | #1,136 |
| 2017 | — | — | 116 | #1,461 |
| 2016 | — | — | 126 | #1,393 |
| 2015 | — | — | 121 | #1,420 |
| 2014 | — | — | 128 | #1,346 |
| 2013 | — | — | 132 | #1,309 |
| 2012 | — | — | 125 | #1,355 |
| 2011 | — | — | 128 | #1,328 |
| 2010 | — | — | 112 | #1,463 |
| 2009 | — | — | 106 | #1,549 |
| 2008 | — | — | 138 | #1,267 |
| 2007 | — | — | 150 | #1,180 |
| 2006 | — | — | 158 | #1,108 |
| 2005 | — | — | 145 | #1,129 |
| 2004 | — | — | 77 | #1,678 |
| 2003 | — | — | 42 | #2,486 |
| 2002 | — | — | 38 | #2,569 |
| 2001 | — | — | 33 | #2,824 |
| 2000 | — | — | 26 | #3,234 |
| 1999 | — | — | 29 | #2,890 |
| 1998 | — | — | 10 | #5,962 |
| 1997 | — | — | 21 | #3,382 |
| 1996 | — | — | 26 | #2,858 |
| 1995 | — | — | 16 | #3,920 |
| 1994 | — | — | 10 | #5,575 |
| 1993 | — | — | 21 | #3,178 |
| 1992 | — | — | 18 | #3,499 |
| 1991 | — | — | 11 | #4,865 |
| 1990 | — | — | 19 | #3,204 |
| 1989 | — | — | 12 | #4,349 |
| 1988 | — | — | 8 | #5,348 |
| 1986 | — | — | 7 | #5,505 |
| 1985 | — | — | 11 | #3,873 |
| 1984 | — | — | 8 | #4,676 |
| 1982 | — | — | 7 | #5,192 |
| 1981 | — | — | 6 | #5,707 |
| 1980 | — | — | 11 | #3,691 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #6,096 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #5,722 |
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).