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Eliyahu

#1,236 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Elijah

Eliyahu has been given to 3,661 babies in the U.S. since 1956. In 2025 it ranked #1,236 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 162 recorded.

Babies named Eliyahu, 2025

1 in 20,500

Eliyahu over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eliyahu: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Elijah

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Eliyahu means

Eliyahu is a form of Elijah.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Eliyahu → Elijah. The family’s meaning is “Yahweh is my god”, recorded in English with the source elements Eliyahu.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Elijah.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,661 boys were recorded with the name Eliyahu between 1956 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 162 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,236 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,454 in 2020 to #1,236 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,298 in 2015 to #1,236 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 Eliyahu?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 20,500
162 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 10,500
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,236
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
14,186 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eliyahu 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 14,186 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eliyahu. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eliyahus were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eliyahu was born before 2011 — so the typical Eliyahu is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
32.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,661
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 32.6% of all recorded uses (1,194).

Is Eliyahu 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
+16
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+218
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+62
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.18×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (162)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,236
2025

Spellings of Eliyahu

Eliyahu is not the most common spelling — Elijah is, with 97.7% against Eliyahu's 0.94%.

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 Eliyahu is used

Across 2016–2025, Eliyahu was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 735 boys, against 1 in 5,592 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

1136 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 735
  2. 2New York1 in 2,174
  3. 3Maryland1 in 12,500
  4. 4Florida1 in 16,667
  5. 5Illinois1 in 50,000
  6. 6Ohio1 in 50,000
  7. 7California1 in 100,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 100,000

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.

Eliyahu around the world

Where Eliyahu 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
    1996–2024
    #2,672
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1994–2021
    #2,619
    in 2021

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.

Notable people named Eliyahu

People whose public names include Eliyahu, 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.

Eliyahu in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Eliyahu. Linked forms have their own page here.

Eliahu

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Eliyahu by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,236
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 218
Best rank ever
#1,236
2025
Peak year
2025
162 that year
First recorded
1956
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,661
Count in 2025
162

Names similar to Eliyahu

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

EliazarEliezerElijiahEliottEligioEliamElielElizabethEliseoElishaEliotEliyahElijhaEliudElieElihuElioElijaEliahElimelechEliakimEligahElighEliab

Names with a curve like Eliyahu

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

YakovIsmailDovidAryehNikolaIlanTzviAmmarKiranNoamAvrahamAkiva

Sibling names for Eliyahu

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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