Elyanah

#8,512 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Elyanah has been given to 153 babies in the U.S. since 2008. In 2025 it ranked #8,512 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Elyanah, 2025

1 in 276,000

Elyanah over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 134,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,512
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Elyanah 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elyanah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Elyanahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Elyanah was born before 2018 — so the typical Elyanah is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
50.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
153
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 50.3% of all recorded uses (77).

Is Elyanah 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
+2,006
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,248
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,659
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.50×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
85.7%
Peak was 2012 (14)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,854
2019

Spellings of Elyanah

Elyanah is not the most common spelling — Eliana is, with 71.1% against Elyanah's 0.14%.

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.

Elyanah around the world

Where Elyanah 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.

  • France
    2012–2025
    #2,520
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2020–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Elyanah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,512
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,248
Best rank ever
#7,854
2019
Peak year
2012
14 that year
First recorded
2008
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
153
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Elyanah

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Sibling names for Elyanah

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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