Eliga
Last seen for boys in 1948 at #3,316
- Peak · boys
- 1894 · 10 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 434since 1880
Eliga over time
Rank among boys' names. Eliga has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
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| 1948 | #3,316 | 6 |
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| 1943 | #3,231 | 6 |
| 1942 | #3,212 | 6 |
| 1941 | — | |
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| 1939 | #2,609 | 8 |
| 1938 | — | |
| 1937 | #2,905 | 7 |
| 1936 | #2,452 | 9 |
| 1935 | #2,951 | 7 |
| 1934 | #3,679 | 5 |
| 1933 | — | |
| 1932 | #3,776 | 5 |
| 1931 | #2,471 | 10 |
| 1930 | — | |
| 1929 | #2,096 | 14 |
| 1928 | #2,659 | 10 |
| 1927 | #2,703 | 10 |
| 1926 | #2,436 | 12 |
| 1925 | #1,935 | 17 |
| 1924 | #3,505 | 7 |
| 1923 | #2,772 | 10 |
| 1922 | #2,143 | 15 |
| 1921 | #2,265 | 14 |
| 1920 | #2,052 | 16 |
| 1919 | #1,882 | 17 |
| 1918 | #1,596 | 22 |
| 1917 | #1,479 | 23 |
| 1916 | #2,152 | 13 |
| 1915 | #1,878 | 15 |
| 1914 | #1,975 | 11 |
| 1913 | #1,676 | 11 |
| 1912 | #1,885 | 8 |
| 1911 | #1,740 | 5 |
| 1910 | — | |
| 1909 | #1,277 | 6 |
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| 1906 | #1,111 | 6 |
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| 1902 | #1,137 | 5 |
| 1901 | #1,058 | 5 |
| 1900 | #836 | 10 |
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| 1897 | #852 | 7 |
| 1896 | #826 | 8 |
| 1895 | #795 | 8 |
| 1894 | #668 | 10 |
| 1893 | — | |
| 1892 | #1,066 | 5 |
| 1891 | #700 | 8 |
| 1890 | — | |
| 1889 | — | |
| 1888 | #815 | 7 |
| 1887 | #819 | 6 |
| 1886 | — | |
| 1885 | #836 | 6 |
| 1884 | #764 | 7 |
| 1883 | — | |
| 1882 | #837 | 6 |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | #909 | 5 |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Eliga was already there! It came in at #909, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1880–1881, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Eliga is popular in 1885
The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.
See more about Eliga
- Not published in 2025; last seen 1948
- Biggest jump: 4 spots in 1888 (#819 → #815)
- Biggest drop: 366 spots in 1892 (#700 → #1,066)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1894 at #668 (10 births)
- Births halved by 1898, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 1894–1897
- Highest: 1 in 11,577 boys born in 1894 were named Eliga (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 292,436 boys born in 1948 (0.00%)
- 28.8% of all boys named Eliga (125) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 37 | #764 (1884) | #830 |
| 1890s | 46 | #668 (1894) | #818 |
| 1900s | 32 | #836 (1900) | #1,084 |
| 1910s | 125 | #1,479 (1917) | #1,807 |
| 1920s | 125 | #1,935 (1925) | #2,457 |
| 1930s | 51 | #2,452 (1936) | #2,978 |
| 1940s | 18 | #3,212 (1942) | #3,253 |
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.
Eliga in 1885
Top boys' names in 1885
More about 1885
boys
107,799 boys got a published name in 1885; 1 in 17,967 of them was named Eliga, which outranked 23.8% of the 1,097 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 40.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 99 names at #836; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.