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Eliga

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Eliga has been given to 434 babies in the U.S. since 1880. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1917, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Eliga, 1948

1 in 575,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eliga: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Eliga means

Eliga is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Eliga is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 434 boys were recorded with the name Eliga between 1880 and 1948. Its highest annual count was 23 in 1917; its best national rank was #686 in 1894.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Eliga?

Eliga had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1948, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1948
1 in 575,000
6 of 3,452,053 births
Among boys only
1 in 292,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1948
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
398,798 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eliga 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 1948 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 398,798 children born in 1948 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eliga. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eligas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eliga was born before 1918 — so the typical Eliga is around 107 today.

Median birth year
1918
About 107 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
28.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
32.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
0
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1910s — 28.8% of all recorded uses (125).

Is Eliga 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1917 (23)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#686
1894

Spellings of Eliga

Eliga is not the most common spelling — Elijah is, with 50.9% against Eliga's 0.06%.

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 Eliga is used

Across 1910–2025, Eliga was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 385,353 across all states with data. It was least common in Mississippi (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in —
  2. 2Louisiana1 in —
  3. 3Mississippi1 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. Eliga has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Eliga by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#686
1894
Peak year
1917
23 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
1948
All-time count
434
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Eliga

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

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Sibling names for Eliga

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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