Eliyahu
#1,235 for boys in 2025, 162 births
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 162 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,661since 1956
Eliyahu over time
Rank among boys' names. Eliyahu 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 | #1,235 | 162 |
| 2024 | #1,250 | 158 |
| 2023 | #1,315 | 145 |
| 2022 | #1,366 | 137 |
| 2021 | #1,454 | 124 |
| 2020 | #1,451 | 119 |
| 2019 | #1,459 | 119 |
| 2018 | #1,539 | 110 |
| 2017 | #1,567 | 104 |
| 2016 | #1,366 | 130 |
| 2015 | #1,297 | 137 |
| 2014 | #1,396 | 121 |
| 2013 | #1,370 | 123 |
| 2012 | #1,478 | 109 |
| 2011 | #1,344 | 126 |
| 2010 | #1,438 | 115 |
| 2009 | #1,497 | 111 |
| 2008 | #1,639 | 94 |
| 2007 | #1,811 | 80 |
| 2006 | #1,808 | 76 |
| 2005 | #1,514 | 94 |
| 2004 | #1,880 | 65 |
| 2003 | #1,845 | 64 |
| 2002 | #1,571 | 78 |
| 2001 | #1,743 | 65 |
| 2000 | #2,087 | 48 |
| 1999 | #1,879 | 52 |
| 1998 | #2,312 | 38 |
| 1997 | #1,908 | 48 |
| 1996 | #1,655 | 58 |
| 1995 | #1,887 | 45 |
| 1994 | #1,894 | 44 |
| 1993 | #1,662 | 53 |
| 1992 | #1,844 | 44 |
| 1991 | #1,919 | 40 |
| 1990 | #1,755 | 45 |
| 1989 | #2,206 | 31 |
| 1988 | #2,035 | 31 |
| 1987 | #1,896 | 33 |
| 1986 | #2,007 | 29 |
| 1985 | #1,866 | 31 |
| 1984 | #1,842 | 30 |
| 1983 | #2,408 | 20 |
| 1982 | #2,972 | 15 |
| 1981 | #3,030 | 14 |
| 1980 | #2,965 | 15 |
| 1979 | #3,018 | 14 |
| 1978 | #3,070 | 13 |
| 1977 | #3,606 | 10 |
| 1976 | #3,095 | 12 |
| 1975 | #3,428 | 10 |
| 1974 | #2,946 | 12 |
| 1973 | #2,857 | 12 |
| 1972 | #3,344 | 9 |
| 1971 | #4,375 | 6 |
| 1970 | #3,521 | 8 |
| 1969 | #3,595 | 7 |
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| 1964 | #4,039 | 5 |
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| 1960 | #4,038 | 5 |
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| 1956 | #2,969 | 8 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Eliyahu! It came in at #2,969, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1957–1968, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Eliyahu
- 15 spots since 2024 (#1,250 → #1,235)
- 216 spots since 2020 (#1,451 → #1,235)
- 62 spots since 2015 (#1,297 → #1,235)
- Debuted 1956
- Peaked 2025 at #1,235 (162 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,544 boys born in 2025 were named Eliyahu (0.01%)
- 32.6% of all boys named Eliyahu (1,194) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 8 | #2,969 (1956) | #2,969 |
| 1960s | 17 | #3,595 (1969) | #3,891 |
| 1970s | 106 | #2,857 (1973) | #3,326 |
| 1980s | 249 | #1,842 (1984) | #2,323 |
| 1990s | 467 | #1,655 (1996) | #1,872 |
| 2000s | 775 | #1,497 (2009) | #1,740 |
| 2010s | 1,194 | #1,297 (2015) | #1,425 |
| 2020s | 845 | #1,235 (2025) | #1,345 |
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.
Eliyahu in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 14,505 of them was named Eliyahu, which outranked 89.7% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,437Rico120
- #1,437Shai120
- #1,437Truth120
- #1,451Eliyahu119
- #1,451Aryeh119
- #1,451Brenden119
- #1,451Devonte119
- #1,460Avyan118
- #1,460Cian118
- #1,460Donte118
Tied with 8 names at #1,451; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.