Meaning not yet researched.
Eliezer: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 266 in 2025. Its best rank was #828 in 1982.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #828 in 1982; #893 in 2025. About 98% of babies named Eliezer in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#893 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1982, at #828.
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Eliezer: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 266 boys in 2025. Peak: #828 in 1982 · most boys in one year: 266 (2025).
In 2025, 266 US boys were named Eliezer, making it the 893rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 121 places from #1,014 in 2024. That is 46 more than the 220 boys named Eliezer in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #828, reached in 1982. The most boys given the name in a single year was 266, in 2025. For comparison, it was #1,025 in 2015 and #3,834 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Eliezer in 78 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1947 with 11 babies. In all, 8,169 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,010 babies named Eliezer.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,168 US boys were named Eliezer; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 266. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,421 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Eliezer ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #184 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Eliazar, Eluzer and Elieser are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Eliazar (2,116), Eluzer (301), Elieser (254), Elizar (142), Eliazer (129), Elizer (116), Eleazer (59), Eleasar (32), Eliezar (29), Eliecer (28), Elezar (15).
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 Eliezer 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 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 54 | #184 | #248 |
| New York | 76 | #255 | #297 |
| Connecticut | 5 | #514 | — |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #568 | #650 |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #754 | #1,215 |
| Indiana | 6 | #887 | — |
| Florida | 13 | #1,025 | #990 |
| Texas | 21 | #1,077 | #1,310 |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,133 | — |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,145 | — |
| California | 14 | #1,316 | #1,794 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,562 | 266 | #893 |
| 2024 | — | — | 220 | #1,014 |
| 2023 | — | — | 222 | #993 |
| 2022 | — | — | 211 | #1,046 |
| 2021 | — | — | 216 | #1,019 |
| 2020 | — | — | 220 | #975 |
| 2019 | — | — | 202 | #1,028 |
| 2018 | — | — | 194 | #1,046 |
| 2017 | — | — | 206 | #991 |
| 2016 | — | — | 211 | #974 |
| 2015 | — | — | 198 | #1,025 |
| 2014 | — | — | 254 | #868 |
| 2013 | — | — | 191 | #1,025 |
| 2012 | — | — | 192 | #1,018 |
| 2011 | — | — | 166 | #1,111 |
| 2010 | — | — | 196 | #999 |
| 2009 | — | — | 203 | #978 |
| 2008 | — | — | 210 | #955 |
| 2007 | — | — | 208 | #950 |
| 2006 | — | — | 174 | #1,044 |
| 2005 | — | — | 170 | #1,004 |
| 2004 | — | — | 166 | #996 |
| 2003 | — | — | 170 | #960 |
| 2002 | — | — | 159 | #990 |
| 2001 | — | — | 135 | #1,069 |
| 2000 | — | — | 128 | #1,098 |
| 1999 | — | — | 125 | #1,077 |
| 1998 | — | — | 129 | #1,046 |
| 1997 | — | — | 131 | #988 |
| 1996 | — | — | 137 | #946 |
| 1995 | — | — | 100 | #1,146 |
| 1994 | — | — | 131 | #963 |
| 1993 | — | — | 112 | #1,043 |
| 1992 | — | — | 116 | #1,011 |
| 1991 | — | — | 95 | #1,124 |
| 1990 | — | — | 112 | #997 |
| 1989 | — | — | 96 | #1,066 |
| 1988 | — | — | 114 | #897 |
| 1987 | — | — | 103 | #931 |
| 1986 | — | — | 88 | #984 |
| 1985 | — | — | 72 | #1,099 |
| 1984 | — | — | 97 | #886 |
| 1983 | — | — | 102 | #869 |
| 1982 | — | — | 115 | #828 |
| 1981 | — | — | 76 | #1,047 |
| 1980 | — | — | 80 | #1,012 |
| 1979 | — | — | 77 | #1,013 |
| 1978 | — | — | 61 | #1,123 |
| 1977 | — | — | 59 | #1,129 |
| 1976 | — | — | 46 | #1,305 |
| 1975 | — | — | 51 | #1,185 |
| 1974 | — | — | 58 | #1,088 |
| 1973 | — | — | 38 | #1,361 |
| 1972 | — | — | 46 | #1,218 |
| 1971 | — | — | 45 | #1,242 |
| 1970 | — | — | 43 | #1,268 |
| 1969 | — | — | 22 | #1,779 |
| 1968 | — | — | 35 | #1,293 |
| 1967 | — | — | 25 | #1,549 |
| 1966 | — | — | 24 | #1,594 |
| 1965 | — | — | 22 | #1,684 |
| 1964 | — | — | 21 | #1,751 |
| 1963 | — | — | 25 | #1,600 |
| 1962 | — | — | 31 | #1,408 |
| 1961 | — | — | 23 | #1,699 |
| 1960 | — | — | 22 | #1,739 |
| 1959 | — | — | 29 | #1,475 |
| 1958 | — | — | 19 | #1,860 |
| 1957 | — | — | 17 | #1,975 |
| 1956 | — | — | 27 | #1,516 |
| 1955 | — | — | 15 | #2,075 |
| 1954 | — | — | 11 | #2,501 |
| 1953 | — | — | 9 | #2,771 |
| 1952 | — | — | 12 | #2,285 |
| 1951 | — | — | 9 | #2,723 |
| 1950 | — | — | 5 | #3,834 |
| 1949 | — | — | 7 | #3,093 |
| 1947 | — | — | 11 | #2,409 |
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).