Ilijah is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Elijah, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Ilijah: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,408 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,408 in 2012; #5,474 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ilijah in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,474 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #3,408.
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Ilijah: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 boys in 2025. Peak: #3,408 in 2012 · most boys in one year: 32 (2012).
In 2025, 17 US boys were named Ilijah, making it the 5,474th most common boys’ name of the year, down 854 places from #4,620 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 22 boys named Ilijah in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,408, reached in 2012. That year also had the most boys given the name: 32. For comparison, it was #4,213 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ilijah in 29 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1996 with 8 babies. In all, 590 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 248 babies named Ilijah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 214 US boys were named Ilijah; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 30. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,475 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Elijah (381,915 babies since 1880) and Elyjah (1,961 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Ilijah 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 | — | — | 17 | #5,474 |
| 2024 | — | — | 22 | #4,620 |
| 2023 | — | — | 20 | #4,950 |
| 2022 | — | — | 26 | #4,133 |
| 2021 | — | — | 20 | #4,837 |
| 2020 | — | — | 14 | #6,096 |
| 2019 | — | — | 20 | #4,866 |
| 2018 | — | — | 30 | #3,650 |
| 2017 | — | — | 19 | #5,003 |
| 2016 | — | — | 26 | #4,039 |
| 2015 | — | — | 24 | #4,213 |
| 2014 | — | — | 24 | #4,177 |
| 2013 | — | — | 23 | #4,232 |
| 2012 | — | — | 32 | #3,408 |
| 2011 | — | — | 29 | #3,637 |
| 2010 | — | — | 21 | #4,580 |
| 2009 | — | — | 22 | #4,486 |
| 2008 | — | — | 28 | #3,772 |
| 2007 | — | — | 24 | #4,170 |
| 2006 | — | — | 19 | #4,753 |
| 2005 | — | — | 21 | #4,248 |
| 2004 | — | — | 15 | #5,350 |
| 2003 | — | — | 20 | #4,175 |
| 2002 | — | — | 19 | #4,235 |
| 2001 | — | — | 19 | #4,189 |
| 2000 | — | — | 12 | #5,705 |
| 1999 | — | — | 8 | #7,422 |
| 1998 | — | — | 8 | #7,101 |
| 1996 | — | — | 8 | #6,734 |
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).