Elyas
#1,263 for boys in 2025, 156 births
- Peak · boys
- 2024 · 164 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,084since 1988
Elyas over time
Rank among boys' names. Elyas has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | #1,263 | 156 |
| 2024 | #1,224 | 164 |
| 2023 | #1,248 | 155 |
| 2022 | #1,414 | 130 |
| 2021 | #1,397 | 131 |
| 2020 | #1,451 | 119 |
| 2019 | #1,407 | 125 |
| 2018 | #1,465 | 118 |
| 2017 | #1,725 | 90 |
| 2016 | #1,921 | 76 |
| 2015 | #2,300 | 57 |
| 2014 | #1,766 | 85 |
| 2013 | #1,878 | 75 |
| 2012 | #2,209 | 59 |
| 2011 | #2,017 | 67 |
| 2010 | #2,212 | 59 |
| 2009 | #2,252 | 58 |
| 2008 | #2,684 | 46 |
| 2007 | #2,337 | 55 |
| 2006 | #3,153 | 34 |
| 2005 | #3,241 | 31 |
| 2004 | #2,788 | 37 |
| 2003 | #3,528 | 25 |
| 2002 | #3,188 | 28 |
| 2001 | #4,890 | 15 |
| 2000 | #4,066 | 19 |
| 1999 | #3,834 | 19 |
| 1998 | #6,843 | 8 |
| 1997 | #4,451 | 14 |
| 1996 | #5,187 | 11 |
| 1995 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | #8,800 | 5 |
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| 1988 | #5,751 | 7 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Elyas! It came in at #5,751, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1989–1994, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Elyas is popular in 2024
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Minnesota#812 · 1 in 4,821
- Virginia#818 · 1 in 5,392
- Illinois#865 · 1 in 5,577
- Washington#885 · 1 in 5,419
- New York#977 · 1 in 6,652
Best ever in a state: #583 in Massachusetts, 2019.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | #812 | 5 | 1 in 4,821 |
| Virginia | #818 | 7 | 1 in 5,392 |
| Illinois | #865 | 9 | 1 in 5,577 |
| Washington | #885 | 6 | 1 in 5,419 |
| New York | #977 | 13 | 1 in 6,652 |
| California | #981 | 22 | 1 in 8,194 |
| Texas | #1,084 | 20 | 1 in 8,940 |
| Michigan | #1,095 | 5 | 1 in 7,995 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,099 | 6 | 1 in 8,708 |
| Florida | #1,117 | 11 | 1 in 8,694 |
| North Carolina | #1,157 | 6 | 1 in 8,525 |
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See more about Elyas
- 39 spots since 2024 (#1,224 → #1,263)
- 188 spots since 2020 (#1,451 → #1,263)
- 1,037 spots since 2015 (#2,300 → #1,263)
- Debuted 1988
- Peaked 2024 at #1,224 (164 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,505 boys born in 2024 were named Elyas (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 10,949 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 41.0% of all boys named Elyas (855) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 7 | #5,751 (1988) | #5,751 |
| 1990s | 63 | #3,834 (1999) | #6,151 |
| 2000s | 348 | #2,252 (2009) | #3,213 |
| 2010s | 811 | #1,407 (2019) | #1,890 |
| 2020s | 855 | #1,224 (2024) | #1,333 |
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.
Elyas in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 10,505 of them was named Elyas, which outranked 91.4% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,220Adiel165
- #1,220Markus165
- #1,220Osiel165
- #1,224Elyas164
- #1,224Kendall164
- #1,224Khari164
- #1,224Lux164
- #1,231Cristopher163
- #1,231Ismail163
- #1,231Niklaus163
Tied with 6 names at #1,224; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.