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 | ||
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| 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.
Where Eliel is popular in 2024
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#288 · 1 in 1,288
- Connecticut#302 · 1 in 1,333
- Maryland#405 · 1 in 1,794
- Texas#426 · 1 in 2,129
- Kansas#456 · 1 in 1,930
Best ever in a state: #203 in Delaware, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | #288 | 31 | 1 in 1,288 |
| Connecticut | #302 | 10 | 1 in 1,333 |
| Maryland | #405 | 13 | 1 in 1,794 |
| Texas | #426 | 84 | 1 in 2,129 |
| Kansas | #456 | 7 | 1 in 1,930 |
| New York | #481 | 34 | 1 in 2,543 |
| Georgia | #485 | 22 | 1 in 2,323 |
| California | #494 | 66 | 1 in 2,731 |
| Illinois | #520 | 19 | 1 in 2,642 |
| Pennsylvania | #541 | 17 | 1 in 3,074 |
| Florida | #542 | 32 | 1 in 2,989 |
| Arizona | #550 | 12 | 1 in 2,761 |
| Massachusetts | #557 | 8 | 1 in 3,378 |
| Iowa | #567 | 5 | 1 in 2,752 |
| Tennessee | #584 | 12 | 1 in 3,022 |
| Indiana | #612 | 10 | 1 in 3,210 |
| North Carolina | #620 | 15 | 1 in 3,410 |
| Alabama | #638 | 7 | 1 in 3,123 |
| Washington | #639 | 10 | 1 in 3,251 |
| Kentucky | #693 | 5 | 1 in 4,075 |
| Virginia | #747 | 8 | 1 in 4,718 |
| Louisiana | #778 | 5 | 1 in 3,936 |
| Minnesota | #812 | 5 | 1 in 4,821 |
| Ohio | #857 | 9 | 1 in 5,854 |
| Missouri | #861 | 5 | 1 in 5,486 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 180,021 of them was named Eliel, which outranked 42.1% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #9,556Zoriana10
- #9,556Zuley10
- #9,556Zyaira10
- #10,271Eliel9
- #10,271Aaditri9
- #10,271Aafia9
- #10,271Aafiya9
- #11,122Aadriti8
- #11,122Aakifah8
- #11,122Aaliyana8
Tied with 850 names at #10,271; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 3,523 of them was named Eliel, which outranked 95.9% 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).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.