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Eliakim

#4,432 in 2025Boys' name

God raises

Eliakim has been given to 247 babies in the U.S. since 1987. In 2025 it ranked #4,432 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 37 recorded.

Babies named Eliakim, 2025

1 in 144,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eliakim: meaning, origin, and history

God raises

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Eliakim means

Eliakim means “God raises”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 247 boys were recorded with the name Eliakim between 1987 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 37 in 2024; its best national rank was #3,232 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,780 in 2020 to #4,432 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,429 in 2015 to #4,432 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 Eliakim?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 144,000
23 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 74,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,432
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
99,910 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eliakim 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 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eliakim. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eliakims were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eliakim was born before 2019 — so the typical Eliakim is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
49.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
247
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2020s — 49.8% of all recorded uses (123).

Is Eliakim 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
−1,200
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,348
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,997
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.77×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
62.2%
Peak was 2024 (37)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,232
2024

Spellings of Eliakim

Eliakim is not the most common spelling — Eliam is, with 94.7% against Eliakim's 5.3%.

  • Eliam94.7%4,439
  • Eliakim5.3%247

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 Eliakim is used

Across 1910–2025, Eliakim was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,756,388 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

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. Eliakim has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Eliakim around the world

Where Eliakim 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
    2014–2024
    #3,255
    in 2024
  • France
    1990–2025
    #695
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2008–2024
    #1,281
    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.

Eliakim by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,432
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,348
Best rank ever
#3,232
2024
Peak year
2024
37 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
247
Count in 2025
23

Names similar to Eliakim

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

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Sibling names for Eliakim

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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