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Elazar

#4,750 in 2025Boys' name

God has helped, through Eleazar

Elazar has been given to 611 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #4,750 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Elazar, 2025

1 in 158,000

Elazar over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Elazar: meaning, origin, and history

God has helped, through Eleazar

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Elazar means

Elazar belongs to the name family reached through Elazar → Eleazar. Its meaning is “God has helped”.

Origin, language, and formation

Elazar is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eleazar.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Elazar is pronounced /ˈɛl.əˌzɑ(ɹ)/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 611 boys were recorded with the name Elazar between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 2003; its best national rank was #3,463 in 2003.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,387 in 2020 to #4,750 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,433 in 2015 to #4,750 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Elazar?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 158,000
21 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 81,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,750
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Elazar sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elazar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Elazars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Elazar was born before 2010 — so the typical Elazar is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
31.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
79.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
611
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 31.6% of all recorded uses (193).

Is Elazar 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
−155
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,637
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−317
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.95×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
80.8%
Peak was 2003 (26)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,463
2003

Spellings of Elazar

Elazar is not the most common spelling — Lamar is, with 59.6% against Elazar's 1.1%.

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 Elazar is used

Across 1910–2025, Elazar was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 61,660 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

12 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 50,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Elazar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Elazar around the world

Where Elazar 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
    2019–2019
    #4,702
    in 2019
  • France
    2002–2011
    #5,402
    in 2011
  • Canada
    2020–2020
    #2,945
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1989–1989
    #478
    in 1989

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Elazar by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,750
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,637
Best rank ever
#3,463
2003
Peak year
2003
26 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
611
Count in 2025
21

Names similar to Elazar

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

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Sibling names for Elazar

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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