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Eleazar

#1,128 in 2025Boys' name

God has helped

Eleazar has been given to 6,158 babies in the U.S. since 1919. In 2025 it ranked #1,128 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 195 recorded.

Babies named Eleazar, 2025

1 in 17,500

Eleazar over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eleazar: meaning, origin, and history

God has helped

Hebrew

What Eleazar means

Eleazar means “God has helped”, associated with 'El'azár.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Hebrew אֶלְעָזָר ('El'azár, “God has helped”). Doublet of Lazarus.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Eleazar (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Eleazar is used in English, Old Czech and Spanish. Its origins include Hebrew.

Eleazar comes through Hebrew אֶלְעָזָר.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lazarus.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Eleazar is pronounced /ˈɛləˌzɑɹ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,151 boys were recorded with the name Eleazar between 1919 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 195 in 2023; its best national rank was #1,094 in 1991.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,142 in 2020 to #1,128 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,361 in 2015 to #1,128 in 2025.

In the United States, 7 girls were recorded with the name Eleazar between 1993 and 1993. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1993; its best national rank was #10,916 in 1993.

How common is Eleazar?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 17,500
189 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 9,040
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,128
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
12,159 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eleazar 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 12,159 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eleazar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eleazars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eleazar was born before 2003 — so the typical Eleazar is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
20.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,821
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Choose a decade

2010s — 20.2% of all recorded uses (1,243).

Is Eleazar 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
+17
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+14
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+233
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.48×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
96.9%
Peak was 2023 (195)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,094
1991

Spellings of Eleazar

Eleazar is the most-used spelling, taking 59.5% of the 10,334 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Eleazar is used

Across 2016–2025, Eleazar was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 4,545 boys, against 1 in 9,379 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

122 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 4,545
  2. 2Arizona1 in 6,250
  3. 3California1 in 6,250
  4. 4Washington1 in 7,143
  5. 5Florida1 in 10,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 11,111
  7. 7New York1 in 14,286
  8. 8Illinois1 in 16,667

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.

Eleazar around the world

Where Eleazar 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
    2008–2025
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2025–2025
    #829
    in 2025
  • France
    1987–2019
    #6,598
    in 2019
  • Canada
    2014–2024
    #2,328
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1978–2001
    #581
    in 2001

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Eleazar

People whose public names include Eleazar, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Eleazar in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Eleazar. Linked forms have their own page here.

LazarElizarElieserLazzaroEleazaro

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Eleazar by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,128
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 14
Best rank ever
#1,094
1991
Peak year
2023
195 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,151
Count in 2025
189

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,916
1993
Peak year
1993
7 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
1993
All-time count
7
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Eleazar

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

EleanorEliazarBaltazarElezarElesterElazarElexLazarEleuterioCezarNazarElenoAlazarNizarKhizarElekElenaEleryElizarElessarEleazerBalthazarEleanElend

Names with a curve like Eleazar

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Eleazar, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

RianMikaelMarcelloHasanEliezerYaakovDarioKenanKarimMenachemReyYitzchok

Sibling names for Eleazar

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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