Meaning not yet researched.
Eliya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 36 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,542 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,542 in 2012; #4,003 in 2025. About 67% of babies named Eliya in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,003 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #3,542.
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Eliya: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 36 girls in 2025. Peak: #3,542 in 2012 · most girls in one year: 45 (2012).
In 2025, 36 US girls were named Eliya, making it the 4,003rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 227 places from #4,230 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 34 girls named Eliya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,542, reached in 2012. That year also had the most girls given the name: 45. For comparison, it was #3,721 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 18 US boys were named Eliya, making it the 5,266th most common boys’ name of the year, up 3,256 places from #8,522 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 9 boys named Eliya in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #5,160, reached in 2018. The most boys given the name in a single year was 18, in 2025. For comparison, it was #8,241 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Eliya in 31 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1993 with 7 babies. In all, 1,032 US babies have been given the name, 81% of them girls and 19% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 420 babies named Eliya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 332 US girls were named Eliya; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 44. In 2025 that was about 1 in 44,646 of the girls 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 Ely (5,087 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Eliya 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 | 36 | #4,003 | 18 | #5,266 |
| 2024 | 34 | #4,230 | 9 | #8,522 |
| 2023 | 34 | #4,216 | 12 | #7,018 |
| 2022 | 44 | #3,553 | 12 | #6,937 |
| 2021 | 43 | #3,565 | 11 | #7,241 |
| 2020 | 31 | #4,381 | 13 | #6,394 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,684 | 11 | #7,300 |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,382 | 18 | #5,160 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,113 | 6 | #11,160 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,765 | 6 | #11,122 |
| 2015 | 41 | #3,721 | 9 | #8,241 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,852 | 9 | #8,336 |
| 2013 | 33 | #4,356 | 5 | #12,690 |
| 2012 | 45 | #3,542 | 7 | #10,024 |
| 2011 | 44 | #3,564 | 10 | #7,658 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,222 | 9 | #8,328 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,397 | 9 | #8,505 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,816 | 9 | #8,502 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,133 | 7 | #10,083 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,382 | — | — |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,920 | — | — |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,105 | — | — |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,882 | — | — |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,133 | 6 | #9,741 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,733 | — | — |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,287 | — | — |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,486 | — | — |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,228 | — | — |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,191 | — | — |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,167 | — | — |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,925 | — | — |
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).