Eliam
#313 for boys in 2025, 1,085 births
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 1,085 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,439since 2000
Eliam over time
Rank among boys' names. Eliam has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #313 | 1,085 |
| 2024 | #381 | 855 |
| 2023 | #638 | 432 |
| 2022 | #670 | 407 |
| 2021 | #739 | 346 |
| 2020 | #1,177 | 163 |
| 2019 | #1,102 | 179 |
| 2018 | #1,122 | 172 |
| 2017 | #1,335 | 134 |
| 2016 | #1,304 | 139 |
| 2015 | #1,668 | 94 |
| 2014 | #1,794 | 83 |
| 2013 | #1,915 | 73 |
| 2012 | #2,104 | 64 |
| 2011 | #2,547 | 48 |
| 2010 | #2,787 | 43 |
| 2009 | #4,429 | 22 |
| 2008 | #4,395 | 22 |
| 2007 | #5,661 | 15 |
| 2006 | #7,998 | 9 |
| 2005 | #5,034 | 16 |
| 2004 | #7,536 | 9 |
| 2003 | #8,643 | 7 |
| 2002 | #6,088 | 11 |
| 2001 | #9,243 | 6 |
| 2000 | #10,349 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Eliam! It came in at #10,349, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2000–2001, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.
Where Eliam is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Mexico#362 · 1 in 1,405
- Florida#475 · 1 in 2,650
- Connecticut#495 · 1 in 2,795
- New Jersey#509 · 1 in 2,897
- Texas#542 · 1 in 3,111
Best ever in a state: #171 in Maryland, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Mexico | #362 | 5 | 1 in 1,405 |
| Florida | #475 | 35 | 1 in 2,650 |
| Connecticut | #495 | 5 | 1 in 2,795 |
| New Jersey | #509 | 14 | 1 in 2,897 |
| Texas | #542 | 55 | 1 in 3,111 |
| Oregon | #545 | 6 | 1 in 2,650 |
| Indiana | #562 | 11 | 1 in 2,978 |
| Colorado | #592 | 8 | 1 in 3,228 |
| New York | #606 | 24 | 1 in 3,714 |
| California | #615 | 47 | 1 in 4,029 |
| Virginia | #619 | 11 | 1 in 3,555 |
| North Carolina | #632 | 14 | 1 in 3,645 |
| Tennessee | #680 | 9 | 1 in 3,982 |
| Arizona | #683 | 8 | 1 in 4,078 |
| Maryland | #708 | 6 | 1 in 4,158 |
| Missouri | #756 | 6 | 1 in 4,757 |
| Georgia | #763 | 11 | 1 in 4,579 |
| Ohio | #1,002 | 7 | 1 in 7,745 |
| Michigan | #1,131 | 5 | 1 in 8,593 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,253 | 5 | 1 in 11,091 |
| Illinois | #1,296 | 5 | 1 in 10,781 |
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See more about Eliam
- 68 spots since 2024 (#381 → #313)
- 864 spots since 2020 (#1,177 → #313)
- 1,355 spots since 2015 (#1,668 → #313)
- Biggest jump: 438 spots in 2021 (#1,177 → #739)
- Debuted 2000
- Peaked 2025 at #313 (1,085 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 2021–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,574 boys born in 2025 were named Eliam (0.06%)
- 74.1% of all boys named Eliam (3,288) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 122 | #4,395 (2008) | #6,938 |
| 2010s | 1,029 | #1,102 (2019) | #1,768 |
| 2020s | 3,288 | #313 (2025) | #653 |
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.
Eliam in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
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1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 5,056 of them was named Eliam, which outranked 94.8% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.