Eliav

#5,261 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Eliab

Eliav has been given to 167 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #5,261 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Eliav, 2025

1 in 184,000

Eliav over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eliav: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Eliab

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Eliav means

Eliav is a form of Eliab.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Eliav → Eliab. The family’s meaning is “my God is father”, recorded in the naming reference for Eliab.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eliab.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 167 boys were recorded with the name Eliav between 1993 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2025; its best national rank was #5,261 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,251 in 2020 to #5,261 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,430 in 2015 to #5,261 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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Eliav?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 184,000; 18 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 94,900; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #5,261; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 127,662 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Eliav 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 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eliav. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eliavs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eliav was born before 2016 — so the typical Eliav is around 9 today.

Median birth year: 2016; About 9 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 43.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 96.4%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 167; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 43.7% of all recorded uses (73).

Is Eliav 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: +2,127; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +2,990; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +1,169; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.38×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 100.0%; Peak was 2025 (18)
Years since peak: Peaking now; At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 47.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,261; 2025

Spellings of Eliav

Eliav is not the most common spelling — Elijah is, with 34.6% against Eliav's 0.02%.

Elijah34.6%380,611
Liam32.6%358,536
Eli14.0%153,495
Elias11.8%129,263
Elian1.4%15,268
Eliot0.72%7,892
Elio0.47%5,174
Eliel0.45%4,922

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 Eliav is used

Across 1910–2025, Eliav was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 888,256 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New York1 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. Eliav has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Eliav around the world

Where Eliav 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
2014–2014
#4,632
in 2014
France
1997–2025
#3,407
in 2025

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

Eliav by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #5,261
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 2,990
Best rank ever: #5,261; 2025
Peak year: 2025; 18 that year
First recorded: 1993
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 167
Count in 2025: 18

Names similar to Eliav

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

Elior Eliya Eliza Elius Elion Elios Elizeo Elite Eliano Elizar Elikai Eliaz Elier Eliahs Elisio Elison Elis Elisa Elim Eliceo Elic Elick Elix Eliyas

Sibling names for Eliav

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Annabell Leonor Karleigh Adelle Keren Kendyl Anabel Hayleigh

For a brother

Hamilton Caesar Brennen Tobin Jerimiah Jorden Leander Henri

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