Meaning not yet researched.
Eliyah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 57 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,124 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,124 in 2024; #2,938 in 2025. About 62% of babies named Eliyah in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,938 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #2,124.
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Eliyah: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 57 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,124 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 90 (2024).
In 2025, 57 US girls were named Eliyah, making it the 2,938th most common girls’ name of the year, down 814 places from #2,124 in 2024. That is 33 fewer than the 90 girls named Eliyah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,124, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 90. For comparison, it was #2,509 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 35 US boys were named Eliyah, making it the 3,332nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 498 places from #3,830 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 29 boys named Eliyah in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,822, reached in 2019. That year also had the most boys given the name: 44. For comparison, it was #3,458 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Eliyah in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1991 with 5 babies. In all, 2,221 US babies have been given the name, 65% of them girls and 35% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 938 babies named Eliyah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 667 US girls were named Eliyah; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 90. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,198 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Eliyah ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #1,105 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Elia (10,159 babies since 1880), Eliyahu (3,661 babies since 1880), Eliah (1,627 babies since 1880) and Eliya (1,032 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Elleah, Ialiyah and Ileyah are summarised on this page.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Elleah (114), Ialiyah (24), Ileyah (21), Ilyah (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 Eliyah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 6 | #1,105 | — |
| California | 8 | #2,332 | #3,134 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 57 | #2,938 | 35 | #3,332 |
| 2024 | 90 | #2,124 | 29 | #3,830 |
| 2023 | 67 | #2,628 | 34 | #3,439 |
| 2022 | 70 | #2,534 | 38 | #3,177 |
| 2021 | 67 | #2,596 | 43 | #2,876 |
| 2020 | 61 | #2,728 | 40 | #2,942 |
| 2019 | 72 | #2,463 | 44 | #2,822 |
| 2018 | 73 | #2,444 | 30 | #3,633 |
| 2017 | 52 | #3,104 | 26 | #4,019 |
| 2016 | 58 | #2,916 | 27 | #3,913 |
| 2015 | 72 | #2,509 | 32 | #3,458 |
| 2014 | 67 | #2,623 | 28 | #3,715 |
| 2013 | 63 | #2,735 | 37 | #3,015 |
| 2012 | 56 | #3,017 | 29 | #3,639 |
| 2011 | 62 | #2,807 | 35 | #3,188 |
| 2010 | 50 | #3,268 | 25 | #4,026 |
| 2009 | 52 | #3,208 | 25 | #4,071 |
| 2008 | 60 | #2,932 | 24 | #4,176 |
| 2007 | 41 | #3,869 | 16 | #5,501 |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,184 | 21 | #4,399 |
| 2005 | 34 | #4,140 | 17 | #4,890 |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,259 | 18 | #4,653 |
| 2003 | 34 | #3,968 | 18 | #4,480 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,134 | 11 | #6,208 |
| 2001 | 31 | #4,047 | 18 | #4,349 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,583 | 11 | #6,035 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,499 | 14 | #4,844 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,165 | 14 | #4,722 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,929 | — | — |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,168 | 6 | #8,254 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,851 | 5 | #9,278 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,248 | 8 | #6,540 |
| 1993 | — | — | 5 | #9,162 |
| 1992 | — | — | 7 | #6,905 |
| 1991 | — | — | 5 | #8,600 |
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).