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Elah

#4,285 in 2025Girls' name

Terebinth tree

Elah has been given to 390 babies in the U.S. since 1905. In 2025 it ranked #4,285 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 33 recorded.

Babies named Elah, 2025

1 in 100,000

Elah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Elah: meaning, origin, and history

Terebinth tree

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Elah means

Elah means “terebinth tree”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 390 girls were recorded with the name Elah between 1905 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 33 in 2015; its best national rank was #2,022 in 1905.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,919 in 2020 to #4,285 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,325 in 2015 to #4,285 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Elah?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 100,000
33 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 48,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,285
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
69,634 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Elah sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 69,634 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Elahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Elah was born before 2015 — so the typical Elah is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
46.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
367
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Choose a decade

2010s — 46.2% of all recorded uses (180).

Is Elah rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+3,052
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,634
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+40
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2015 (33)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,022
1905

Spellings of Elah

Elah is not the most common spelling — Ella is, with 22.7% against Elah's 0.03%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Elah is used

Across 1910–2025, Elah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 561,385 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Elah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Elah around the world

Where Elah ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2008–2018
    #5,666
    in 2018
  • France
    2013–2024
    #7,416
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Elah by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,285
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,634
Best rank ever
#2,022
1905
Peak year
2015
33 that year
First recorded
1905
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
390
Count in 2025
33

Names similar to Elah

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Elah

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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