Eliud

#5,263 in 2025Boys' name

God is grandeur

Eliud has been given to 1,593 babies in the U.S. since 1931. In 2025 it ranked #5,263 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 43 recorded.

Babies named Eliud, 2025

1 in 184,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eliud: meaning, origin, and history

God is grandeur

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Eliud means

Eliud means “God is grandeur”.

Origin, language, and formation

Eliud is used in Swahili.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,593 boys were recorded with the name Eliud between 1931 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 43 in 2000; its best national rank was #1,800 in 1975.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,219 in 2020 to #5,263 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,255 in 2015 to #5,263 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Eliud?

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: #5,263; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 127,662 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Eliud 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 Eliud. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eliuds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eliud was born before 2000 — so the typical Eliud is around 25 today.

Median birth year: 2000; About 25 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 23.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 49.8%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 1,577; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 23.0% of all recorded uses (366).

Is Eliud 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: −1,034; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: −2,044; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: −2,008; Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago: 0.51×; Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak: 41.9%; Peak was 2000 (43)
Years since peak: 25; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 24.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,800; 1975

Spellings of Eliud

Eliud is not the most common spelling — Eli is, with 44.4% against Eliud's 0.46%.

Eli44.4%153,495
Elias37.4%129,263
Elian4.4%15,268
Claud3.2%10,893
Eliot2.3%7,892
Elio1.5%5,174
Eliel1.4%4,922
Eliam1.3%4,439

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 Eliud is used

Across 1910–2025, Eliud was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 55,215 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Texas1 in 20,000
2Arizona1 in —
3California1 in —
4New 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. Eliud has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Eliud around the world

Where Eliud 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
2016–2025
#4,275
in 2025
Canada
2024–2024
#2,328
in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Eliud by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #5,263
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 2,044
Best rank ever: #1,800; 1975
Peak year: 2000; 43 that year
First recorded: 1931
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 1,593
Count in 2025: 18

Names similar to Eliud

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

Elihu Elija Eliah Eligh Eliab Eligio Eliott Eliam Elier Eliel Elia Eliaz Elie Eliyah Elijha Eliot Elion Eliazar Elijiah Eliu Elio Eliyas Eliza Eligah

Sibling names for Eliud

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

Sheridan Savana Tatianna Chyna Nada Lisbeth Jackeline Kalie

For a brother

Donavon Shamar Zakary Demarco Jaren Madison Keven Johnson

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