Elazar

Where Elazar comes from

The dictionaries list Elazar as a given name — a male given name: alternative form of Eleazar — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • 3 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1973
    First appearance
    #4,505 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2003
    Peak, #3,443
    26 babies named Elazar — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2005
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #7,096.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name: alternative form of Eleazar.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Elazar hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.