Eliga

Last seen for boys in 1948 at #3,316

Peak · boys
1894 · 10 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
434
since 1880

Eliga over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Eliga has never cracked the top 600 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201897peak #668, 1894boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1948#3,3166
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1943#3,2316
1942#3,2126
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1939#2,6098
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1937#2,9057
1936#2,4529
1935#2,9517
1934#3,6795
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1932#3,7765
1931#2,47110
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1929#2,09614
1928#2,65910
1927#2,70310
1926#2,43612
1925#1,93517
1924#3,5057
1923#2,77210
1922#2,14315
1921#2,26514
1920#2,05216
1919#1,88217
1918#1,59622
1917#1,47923
1916#2,15213
1915#1,87815
1914#1,97511
1913#1,67611
1912#1,8858
1911#1,7405
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1909#1,2776
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1906#1,1116
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1902#1,1375
1901#1,0585
1900#83610
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1897#8527
1896#8268
1895#7958
1894#66810
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1892#1,0665
1891#7008
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1888#8157
1887#8196
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1885#8366
1884#7647
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1882#8376
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1880#9095
First appearance
1880

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 1897

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Eliga
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1948
  • Biggest jump: 4 spots in 1888 (#819 → #815)
  • Biggest drop: 366 spots in 1892 (#700 → #1,066)
Rise & fade · boys
14 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1880
  • Peaked 1894 at #668 (10 births)
  • Births halved by 1898, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 12 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 1894–1897
Share of babies · boys
1 in 11,577
  • 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%)
Era · boys
The 1910s
  • 28.8% of all boys named Eliga (125) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s37#764 (1884)#830
1890s46#668 (1894)#818
1900s32#836 (1900)#1,084
1910s125#1,479 (1917)#1,807
1920s125#1,935 (1925)#2,457
1930s51#2,452 (1936)#2,978
1940s18#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 1897

boys
#852
7 births · 1 in 16,108 boys

Top boys' names in 1897

  1. #1John7,550
  2. #2William7,198
  3. #3James5,113
  4. #4George4,078
  5. #5Charles3,341
  6. #6Joseph2,827
  7. #7Frank2,726
  8. #8Robert2,701
  9. #9Edward2,121
  10. #10Henry1,994
  11. #852Eliga7
More about 1897

boys

112,757 boys got a published name in 1897; 1 in 16,108 of them was named Eliga, which outranked 30.7% of the 1,229 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 35.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Eliga
  1. #787Wellington8
  2. #787West8
  3. #787Wilton8
  4. #852Eliga7
  5. #852Alma7
  6. #852Antoine7
  7. #852Arvid7
  8. #942Agnes6
  9. #942Alec6
  10. #942Allison6

Tied with 89 names at #852; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1896
Risers
  1. ↑ 509Roswell#982 → #473
  2. ↑ 487Theron#982 → #495
  3. ↑ 486Alois#1,101 → #615
  4. ↑ 486Rush#1,101 → #615
  5. ↑ 467Helmer#982 → #515
Fallers
  1. ↓ 480Benton#462 → #942
  2. ↓ 465Louise#592 → #1,057
  3. ↓ 465Bradford#592 → #1,057
  4. ↓ 461Allison#481 → #942
  5. ↓ 424Hilliard#518 → #942

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1897 →