Eliyas
#3,779 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Eliyas has been given to 446 babies in the U.S. since 2002. In 2025 it ranked #3,779 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 40 recorded.
Babies named Eliyas, 2025
1 in 114,000
Eliyas over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Eliyas?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 114,000
- 29 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 58,900
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #3,779
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 79,239 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Eliyas sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 79,239 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eliyas. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Eliyass were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Eliyas was born before 2018 — so the typical Eliyas is around 7 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 43.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 446
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 43.7% of all recorded uses (195).
Is Eliyas 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
- +325
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +267
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,154
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.53×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 72.5%
- Peak was 2022 (40)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.1% average annual change
Spellings of Eliyas
Eliyas is not the most common spelling — Elijah is, with 69.4% against Eliyas's 0.08%.
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 Eliyas is used
Across 1910–2025, Eliyas was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 863,393 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Florida1 in —
- 3New York1 in —
- 4Texas1 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. Eliyas has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Eliyas around the world
Where Eliyas 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 & Wales2007–2025#1,093in 2025
- Scotland2024–2024#727in 2024
- France2012–2025#3,381in 2025
- Canada2017–2021#2,619in 2021
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Eliyas by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Eliyas
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Eliyas
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.