Elshaddai
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Elshaddai has been given to 28 babies in the U.S. since 2015. 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 2015, with 9 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 54% girls, 46% boys all-time.
Babies named Elshaddai, 2020
1 in 557,000
Elshaddai 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Elshaddai over time
In 2023, Elshaddai went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
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.
How common is Elshaddai?
Elshaddai had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2020
- 1 in 557,000
- 6 of 3,342,313 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 269,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2020
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 386,120 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Elshaddai sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 386,120 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elshaddai. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Elshaddais were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Elshaddai was born before 2015 — so the typical Elshaddai is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 60.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 15
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 60.0% of all recorded uses (9).
Is Elshaddai 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
- —
- 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 2015 (9)
- Years since peak
- 10
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Elshaddai around the world
Where Elshaddai 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 & Wales2016–2016#5,785in 2016
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Elshaddai by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Elshaddai
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Elshaddai
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.