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Eliab

#2,491 in 2025Boys' name

My God is father

Eliab has been given to 945 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #2,491 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 98 recorded.

Babies named Eliab, 2025

1 in 61,400

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eliab: meaning, origin, and history

My God is father

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Eliab means

Eliab means “my God is father”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 945 boys were recorded with the name Eliab between 1989 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 98 in 2022; its best national rank was #1,723 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,559 in 2020 to #2,491 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,253 in 2015 to #2,491 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 Eliab?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 61,400
54 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 31,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,491
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
42,555 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eliab 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 42,555 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eliab. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eliabs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eliab was born before 2018 — so the typical Eliab is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
40.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
945
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Choose a decade

2020s — 40.3% of all recorded uses (381).

Is Eliab 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
−39
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+68
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+762
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.54×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
55.1%
Peak was 2022 (98)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,723
2022

Spellings of Eliab

Eliab is not the most common spelling — Elijah is, with 34.6% against Eliab's 0.09%.

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 Eliab is used

Across 2016–2025, Eliab was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 11,111 boys, against 1 in 32,896 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 100,000).

19 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maryland1 in 11,111
  2. 2Virginia1 in 11,111
  3. 3Washington1 in 20,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 25,000
  5. 5California1 in 33,333
  6. 6Georgia1 in 33,333
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in 50,000
  8. 8Arizona1 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.

Eliab around the world

Where Eliab 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
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • France
    2021–2023
    #5,185
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2013–2024
    #1,817
    in 2024

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

Eliab by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,491
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 68
Best rank ever
#1,723
2022
Peak year
2022
98 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
945
Count in 2025
54

Names similar to Eliab

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

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Sibling names for Eliab

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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