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Eliam

#313 in 2025Boys' name

God is a kinsman

Eliam has been given to 4,439 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #313 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 1,085 recorded.

Babies named Eliam, 2025

1 in 3,060

Eliam over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05001K1.5K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eliam: meaning, origin, and history

God is a kinsman

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Eliam means

Eliam means “God is a kinsman”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,439 boys were recorded with the name Eliam between 2000 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 1,085 in 2025; its best national rank was #313 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,183 in 2020 to #313 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,670 in 2015 to #313 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 Eliam?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 3,060
1,085 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 1,570
0.06% of boys
Rank, 2025
#313
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
2,119 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eliam 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 1003%
School of 50015%

Put another way: gather 2,119 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eliam. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eliams were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eliam was born before 2023 — so the typical Eliam is around 2 today.

Median birth year
2023
About 2 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
74.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,439
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 74.1% of all recorded uses (3,288).

Is Eliam 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
+68
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+870
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,357
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
11.54×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (1,085)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#313
2025

Spellings of Eliam

Eliam is not the most common spelling — Elijah is, with 34.3% against Eliam's 0.40%.

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 Eliam is used

Across 2016–2025, Eliam was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 2,632 boys, against 1 in 4,264 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in 33,333).

338 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 2,632
  2. 2Texas1 in 2,632
  3. 3New York1 in 2,778
  4. 4Maryland1 in 2,857
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in 3,030
  6. 6Virginia1 in 3,226
  7. 7Colorado1 in 3,333
  8. 8Arizona1 in 3,448

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.

Geographically, Eliam is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 45% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Eliam around the world

Where Eliam 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
    #1,798
    in 2025
  • France
    1986–2025
    #455
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2007–2024
    #517
    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.

Eliam by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#313
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 870
Best rank ever
#313
2025
Peak year
2025
1,085 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,439
Count in 2025
1,085

Names similar to Eliam

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

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Names with a curve like Eliam

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

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Sibling names for Eliam

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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