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Eliel

#586 in 2025Boys' name

El is my lord

Eliel has been given to 4,931 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #586 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 503 recorded.

Babies named Eliel, 2025

1 in 6,590

Eliel over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eliel: meaning, origin, and history

El is my lord

Hebrew

What Eliel means

Eliel means “El is my lord”, associated with 'ĕlī'ēl.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Hebrew אֱלִיאֵל ('ĕlī'ēl, “El is my lord”).

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Eliel is used in English and Finnish. Its origins include Hebrew.

Eliel comes through Hebrew אֱלִיאֵל.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Eliel is pronounced /ˈeliel/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,922 boys were recorded with the name Eliel between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 503 in 2025; its best national rank was #584 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #746 in 2020 to #586 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,420 in 2015 to #586 in 2025.

In the United States, 9 girls were recorded with the name Eliel between 2024 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2024; its best national rank was #10,509 in 2024.

How common is Eliel?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 6,590
503 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 3,400
0.03% of boys
Rank, 2025
#586
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
4,570 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eliel 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 1001%
School of 5007%

Put another way: gather 4,570 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eliel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eliels were born

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

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
44.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,922
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 44.5% of all recorded uses (2,190).

Is Eliel 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
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+160
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+834
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
4.16×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (503)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#584
2024

Spellings of Eliel

Eliel is not the most common spelling — Eli is, with 25.0% against Eliel's 0.80%.

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 Eliel is used

Across 2016–2025, Eliel was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 2,564 boys, against 1 in 5,417 across all states with data. It was least common in Minnesota (1 in 50,000).

239 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 2,564
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in 3,030
  3. 3Maryland1 in 3,226
  4. 4New York1 in 3,448
  5. 5Connecticut1 in 3,704
  6. 6Texas1 in 4,000
  7. 7Arizona1 in 4,545
  8. 8California1 in 4,545

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, Eliel is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 74% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Eliel around the world

Where Eliel 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
    #1,897
    in 2025
  • France
    1989–2025
    #883
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2008–2024
    #1,232
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1999–2012
    #771
    in 2012

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

Notable people named Eliel

People whose public names include Eliel, 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.

Eliel by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#586
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 160
Best rank ever
#584
2024
Peak year
2025
503 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,922
Count in 2025
503

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,509
2024
Peak year
2024
9 that year
First recorded
2024
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
9
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Eliel

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

EliamEliotElioEliudElianElieElihuElijaEliahElighEliottEliseoEliabOsielAdielEliyahuAzielOzielEligioElishaUzielEliezerJadielYadiel

Names with a curve like Eliel

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

ZahirZaydJakariBenicioDakariAriesEmirZamirJakaiAzaelAnakinBoden

Sibling names for Eliel

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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