Elijha
- #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
- Peak · boys
- 2007 · 45 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 759since 1949
Elijha over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Elijha has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
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. Not on the chart: 7 boys in 1949 (see the data table).
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | #10,821 | 6 |
| 2022 | #7,768 | 10 |
| 2021 | #8,166 | 9 |
| 2020 | #9,554 | 7 |
| 2019 | #8,215 | 9 |
| 2018 | #7,136 | 11 |
| 2017 | — | |
| 2016 | #7,157 | 11 |
| 2015 | #8,744 | 8 |
| 2014 | #5,066 | 18 |
| 2013 | #4,804 | 19 |
| 2012 | #3,115 | 36 |
| 2011 | #3,510 | 30 |
| 2010 | #3,181 | 35 |
| 2009 | #2,753 | 44 |
| 2008 | #2,828 | 42 |
| 2007 | #2,684 | 45 |
| 2006 | #3,153 | 34 |
| 2005 | #3,022 | 34 |
| 2004 | #3,014 | 33 |
| 2003 | #2,922 | 33 |
| 2002 | #2,685 | 35 |
| 2001 | #2,931 | 31 |
| 2000 | #3,299 | 25 |
| 1999 | #3,704 | 20 |
| 1998 | #3,708 | 19 |
| 1997 | #3,261 | 22 |
| 1996 | #3,202 | 22 |
| 1995 | #3,303 | 20 |
| 1994 | #4,803 | 12 |
| 1993 | #5,360 | 10 |
| 1992 | #7,422 | 6 |
| 1991 | #5,521 | 9 |
| 1990 | #6,415 | 7 |
| 1989 | #5,615 | 8 |
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| 1986 | #4,457 | 9 |
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| 1983 | #6,238 | 5 |
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| 1980 | #6,250 | 5 |
| 1979 | #4,842 | 7 |
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| 1949 | #3,019 | 7 |
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First appearance
1949
The first year at least five boys were named Elijha! It came in at #3,019, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1950–1978, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Elijha is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Elijha in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Elijha
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 1,141 spots since 2020 (#9,554 → #10,695)
Rise & fade · boys
58 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1949
- Peaked 2007 at #2,684 (45 births)
- Births halved by 2013, 6 yrs later
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 45,081
- Highest: 1 in 45,081 boys born in 2009 were named Elijha (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 284,679 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,684 in 2007, was only 1 in 46,120 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
- 46.9% of all boys named Elijha (356) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 7 | #3,019 (1949) | #3,019 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 7 | #4,842 (1979) | #4,842 |
| 1980s | 27 | #4,457 (1986) | #5,640 |
| 1990s | 147 | #3,202 (1996) | #4,670 |
| 2000s | 356 | #2,684 (2007) | #2,929 |
| 2010s | 177 | #3,115 (2012) | #5,659 |
| 2020s | 38 | #7,768 (2022) | #9,401 |
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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