Eliah
- #7,491 for girls in 2025, 14 births
- #3,181 for boys in 2025, 37 births
- Given to boys 71.2% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2009 · 56 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,159since 1972
Eliah over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,491 | 14 | #3,181 | 37 |
| 2024 | #7,251 | 15 | #3,524 | 32 |
| 2023 | #7,247 | 15 | #3,177 | 38 |
| 2022 | #7,631 | 14 | #2,962 | 42 |
| 2021 | #6,174 | 19 | #2,862 | 43 |
| 2020 | #5,850 | 20 | #2,437 | 53 |
| 2019 | #6,698 | 17 | #2,766 | 45 |
| 2018 | #6,521 | 18 | #2,994 | 39 |
| 2017 | #6,808 | 17 | #2,388 | 54 |
| 2016 | #4,990 | 27 | #2,477 | 51 |
| 2015 | #6,236 | 20 | #2,641 | 46 |
| 2014 | #7,302 | 16 | #2,582 | 47 |
| 2013 | #6,017 | 21 | #3,189 | 34 |
| 2012 | #6,341 | 20 | #2,954 | 39 |
| 2011 | #5,935 | 22 | #2,626 | 46 |
| 2010 | #6,382 | 20 | #2,914 | 40 |
| 2009 | #6,544 | 20 | #2,320 | 56 |
| 2008 | #5,750 | 24 | #2,788 | 43 |
| 2007 | #10,129 | 11 | #4,243 | 23 |
| 2006 | #7,482 | 16 | #3,602 | 28 |
| 2005 | #5,999 | 20 | #3,615 | 26 |
| 2004 | #11,624 | 8 | #3,534 | 26 |
| 2003 | #8,505 | 12 | #3,976 | 21 |
| 2002 | #6,698 | 16 | #4,502 | 17 |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 | #4,302 | 18 |
| 2000 | #11,801 | 7 | #3,536 | 23 |
| 1999 | #7,716 | 12 | #4,341 | 16 |
| 1998 | #8,016 | 11 | #4,873 | 13 |
| 1997 | — | #3,877 | 17 | |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #4,185 | 15 |
| 1995 | — | #5,501 | 10 | |
| 1994 | — | #7,770 | 6 | |
| 1993 | — | #5,360 | 10 | |
| 1992 | — | #6,128 | 8 | |
| 1991 | — | #5,096 | 10 | |
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| 1985 | — | #4,698 | 8 | |
| 1984 | — | #6,315 | 5 | |
| 1983 | — | #4,907 | 7 | |
| 1982 | — | #6,385 | 5 | |
| 1981 | — | #5,468 | 6 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,838 | 10 | |
| 1979 | — | #6,056 | 5 | |
| 1978 | — | #4,554 | 7 | |
| 1977 | — | #4,164 | 8 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,935 | 6 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,659 | 9 | |
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| 1973 | — | #5,101 | 5 | |
| 1972 | — | #4,441 | 6 | |
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First appearance
1972
The first year at least five boys were named Eliah! It came in at #4,441, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1973–1974, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Eliah is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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Top states · boys
- Florida#1,478 · 1 in 13,648
- California#2,203 · 1 in 29,246
Best ever in a state: #648 in Massachusetts, 2019.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Florida | #1,478 | 7 | 1 in 13,648 |
| California | #2,203 | 6 | 1 in 29,246 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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Momentum · boys
Falling
- 343 spots since 2024 (#3,524 → #3,181)
- 744 spots since 2020 (#2,437 → #3,181)
- 540 spots since 2015 (#2,641 → #3,181)
Rise & fade · boys
37 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 2009 at #2,320 (56 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 32,567
- Highest: 1 in 32,567 boys born in 2020 were named Eliah (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 46,164 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,320 in 2009, was only 1 in 35,421 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 38.1% of all boys named Eliah (441) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 46 | #3,659 (1975) | #4,701 |
| 1980s | 41 | #3,838 (1980) | #5,269 |
| 1990s | 105 | #3,877 (1997) | #5,237 |
| 2000s | 281 | #2,320 (2009) | #3,642 |
| 2010s | 441 | #2,388 (2017) | #2,753 |
| 2020s | 245 | #2,437 (2020) | #3,024 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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