Elliah
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Elliah has been given to 87 babies in the U.S. since 2002. 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 2018, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Elliah, 2022
1 in 677,000
Elliah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Elliah?
Elliah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2022
- 1 in 677,000
- 5 of 3,385,755 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 328,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2022
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 469,366 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Elliah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elliah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Elliahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Elliah was born before 2017 — so the typical Elliah is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 56.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 87
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 56.3% of all recorded uses (49).
Is Elliah 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2018 (11)
- Years since peak
- 7
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.4% average annual change
Spellings of Elliah
Elliah is not the most common spelling — Ella is, with 62.2% against Elliah's 0.02%.
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.
Elliah around the world
Where Elliah 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 & Wales2002–2019#5,591in 2019
- South Australia2012–2012#871in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Elliah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Elliah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Elliah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.