Elija

Where Elija comes from

Elija hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1889
    Debut at its peak, #974
    #974 among boys with 5 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1890
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  3. 1957
    Elija Muchima born
    Zambian politician
  4. 1999
    Elija Godwin born
    American athlete
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Elija Godwin · American athlete, born 1999
  • Elija Muchima · Zambian politician, born 1957

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.