Eliyah
Recorded 1991–2025 · United States
Eliyah was most popular in 2024, when 119 American babies were given the name — ranking #3,165 that year. In 2025 it ranked #3,745, with 92 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,221 people named Eliyah.
Eliyah over time
How old is the name Eliyah?
Eliyah first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1991, which makes it about 34 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 35 of the 35 years since.
How many people are named Eliyah?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,221 American births named Eliyah between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 2,201 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Eliyah in 2025?
92 American babies were named Eliyah in 2025, ranking #3,745 that year.
Is Eliyah getting more or less popular?
Eliyah is holding steady. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 106 births a year, against 96 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of +10% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Eliyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Eliyah is a unisex name — 65.1% of the 2,221 Americans given it were girls and 34.9% were boys. It changed hands: since 1999 it has gone mainly to girls, having gone mainly to boys before that. In births since 2016 it is 66% girls and 34% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Eliyah?
Roughly 2,201 Americans named Eliyah are alive today — 99% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 11 years old, and half are between 6 and 18. That is a narrow band because Eliyah is a young name — it only became common recently, so almost everyone carrying it is still a child or a young adult.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Eliyah is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org