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Elizah

#3,662 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

My God is an oath, through Eliza

Elizah has been given to 1,385 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #3,662 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 48 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 59% girls, 41% boys all-time.

Babies named Elizah, 2025

1 in 80,900

Elizah over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Elizah over time

In 2025, Elizah went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

18992025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Elizah: meaning, origin, and history

My God is an oath, through Eliza

Hebrew

What Elizah means

Elizah belongs to the name family reached through Elizah → Eliza → Elizabeth. Its meaning is “my God is an oath”.

Origin, language, and formation

Elizah is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eliza and Elizabeth.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 815 girls were recorded with the name Elizah between 1991 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 48 in 2017; its best national rank was #3,297 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,635 in 2020 to #3,662 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,168 in 2015 to #3,662 in 2025.

In the United States, 570 boys were recorded with the name Elizah between 1899 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 18 in 1999; its best national rank was #963 in 1899.

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 Elizah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 80,900
41 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 39,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,662
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
56,047 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Elizah sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 56,047 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elizah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Elizahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Elizah was born before 2016 — so the typical Elizah is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
38.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
815
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2010s — 38.9% of all recorded uses (317).

Is Elizah 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
−365
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−27
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+506
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.17×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
85.4%
Peak was 2017 (48)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,297
2024

Spellings of Elizah

Elizah is not the most common spelling — Eliza is, with 20.5% against Elizah's 0.24%.

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 Elizah is used

Across 1910–2025, Elizah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 317,795 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Michigan1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Ohio1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Elizah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Elizah around the world

Where Elizah 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
    2007–2025
    #2,788
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2011–2022
    #3,322
    in 2022

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.

Elizah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,662
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 27
Best rank ever
#3,297
2024
Peak year
2017
48 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
815
Count in 2025
41

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#963
1899
Peak year
1999
18 that year
First recorded
1899
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
570
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Elizah

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

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Sibling names for Elizah

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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