Ilijah
#5,472 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ilijah has been given to 590 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #5,472 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 32 recorded.
Babies named Ilijah, 2025
1 in 195,000
Ilijah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Ilijah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 195,000
- 17 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 100,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #5,472
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 135,172 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ilijah 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ilijah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ilijahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ilijah was born before 2012 — so the typical Ilijah is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 42.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 93.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 590
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 42.0% of all recorded uses (248).
Is Ilijah 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
- −856
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +620
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,261
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.71×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 53.1%
- Peak was 2012 (32)
- Years since peak
- 13
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.2% average annual change
Spellings of Ilijah
Ilijah is not the most common spelling — Elijah is, with 87.4% against Ilijah'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.
Where Ilijah is used
Across 1910–2025, Ilijah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 837,086 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Colorado1 in —
- 3Georgia1 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. Ilijah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Ilijah around the world
Where Ilijah 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 & Wales2021–2025#5,137in 2025
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Ilijah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ilijah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ilijah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.