Eliel
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #10,271 · #585 for boys in 2025, 503 births
Given to boys 99.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2024 · 489 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,922since 1975
Eliel over time
Rank among boys' names. Eliel has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #585 | 503 | |
| 2024 | #10,271 | 9 | #584 | 489 |
| 2023 | — | #834 | 292 | |
| 2022 | — | #813 | 306 | |
| 2021 | — | #854 | 275 | |
| 2020 | — | #746 | 325 | |
| 2019 | — | #662 | 400 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,135 | 170 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,460 | 116 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,389 | 126 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,416 | 121 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,344 | 128 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,305 | 132 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,355 | 125 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,327 | 128 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,462 | 112 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,546 | 106 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,263 | 138 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,176 | 150 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,106 | 158 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,128 | 145 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,671 | 77 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,470 | 42 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,556 | 38 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,797 | 33 | |
| 2000 | — | #3,219 | 26 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,865 | 29 | |
| 1998 | — | #5,840 | 10 | |
| 1997 | — | #3,351 | 21 | |
| 1996 | — | #2,838 | 26 | |
| 1995 | — | #3,854 | 16 | |
| 1994 | — | #5,452 | 10 | |
| 1993 | — | #3,141 | 21 | |
| 1992 | — | #3,459 | 18 | |
| 1991 | — | #4,760 | 11 | |
| 1990 | — | #3,166 | 19 | |
| 1989 | — | #4,271 | 12 | |
| 1988 | — | #5,200 | 8 | |
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| 1986 | — | #5,332 | 7 | |
| 1985 | — | #3,805 | 11 | |
| 1984 | — | #4,552 | 8 | |
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| 1982 | — | #5,003 | 7 | |
| 1981 | — | #5,468 | 6 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,615 | 11 | |
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| 1978 | — | #5,772 | 5 | |
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| 1975 | — | #5,464 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Eliel! It came in at #5,464, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1975–1979, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Eliel
- 1 spot since 2024 (#584 → #585)
- 161 spots since 2020 (#746 → #585)
- 831 spots since 2015 (#1,416 → #585)
- Biggest jump: 473 spots in 2019 (#1,135 → #662)
- Biggest drop: 108 spots in 2021 (#746 → #854)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 2024 at #584 (489 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 2019–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,396 boys born in 2025 were named Eliel (0.03%)
- Its best rank, #584 in 2024, was only 1 in 3,523 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 44.5% of all boys named Eliel (2,190) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 10 | #5,464 (1975) | #5,618 |
| 1980s | 70 | #3,615 (1980) | #4,656 |
| 1990s | 181 | #2,838 (1996) | #3,873 |
| 2000s | 913 | #1,106 (2006) | #1,893 |
| 2010s | 1,558 | #662 (2019) | #1,286 |
| 2020s | 2,190 | #584 (2024) | #736 |
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.
Eliel in 1975
Top boys' names in 1975
More about 1975
boys
1,561,357 boys got a published name in 1975; 1 in 312,271 of them was named Eliel, which outranked 13.8% of the 6,337 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 25.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 873 names at #5,464; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.