Meaning not yet researched.
Elijiah: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,852 in 2003.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,852 in 2003; #9,147 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Elijiah in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,147 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2003, at #1,852.
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Elijiah: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,852 in 2003 · most boys in one year: 75 (2008).
In 2025, 8 US boys were named Elijiah, making it the 9,147th most common boys’ name of the year, down 3,159 places from #5,988 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 15 boys named Elijiah in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,852, reached in 2003. The most boys given the name in a single year was 75, in 2008. For comparison, it was #3,913 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Elijiah in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1979 with 5 babies. In all, 1,151 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 548 babies named Elijiah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 179 US boys were named Elijiah; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 30. In 2025 that was about 1 in 213,510 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Elijio, Elyjiah and Elijia 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: Elijio (527), Elyjiah (29), Elijia (8).
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 Elijiah 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 | — | — | 8 | #9,147 |
| 2024 | — | — | 15 | #5,988 |
| 2023 | — | — | 13 | #6,636 |
| 2022 | — | — | 8 | #9,227 |
| 2021 | — | — | 19 | #4,977 |
| 2020 | — | — | 19 | #4,908 |
| 2019 | — | — | 30 | #3,656 |
| 2018 | — | — | 19 | #4,982 |
| 2017 | — | — | 22 | #4,509 |
| 2016 | — | — | 26 | #4,025 |
| 2015 | — | — | 27 | #3,913 |
| 2014 | — | — | 28 | #3,714 |
| 2013 | — | — | 48 | #2,541 |
| 2012 | — | — | 46 | #2,644 |
| 2011 | — | — | 53 | #2,388 |
| 2010 | — | — | 71 | #1,964 |
| 2009 | — | — | 65 | #2,107 |
| 2008 | — | — | 75 | #1,920 |
| 2007 | — | — | 61 | #2,195 |
| 2006 | — | — | 53 | #2,355 |
| 2005 | — | — | 51 | #2,306 |
| 2004 | — | — | 56 | #2,109 |
| 2003 | — | — | 64 | #1,852 |
| 2002 | — | — | 47 | #2,229 |
| 2001 | — | — | 44 | #2,287 |
| 2000 | — | — | 32 | #2,826 |
| 1999 | — | — | 36 | #2,479 |
| 1998 | — | — | 22 | #3,420 |
| 1997 | — | — | 23 | #3,197 |
| 1996 | — | — | 19 | #3,585 |
| 1995 | — | — | 12 | #4,884 |
| 1994 | — | — | 11 | #5,201 |
| 1993 | — | — | 10 | #5,470 |
| 1992 | — | — | 7 | #6,902 |
| 1991 | — | — | 6 | #7,551 |
| 1979 | — | — | 5 | #6,337 |
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).