Lijah
#5,135 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Lijah has been given to 229 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #5,135 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 19 recorded.
Babies named Lijah, 2025
1 in 174,000
Lijah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Lijah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 174,000
- 19 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 89,900
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #5,135
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 120,943 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Lijah 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 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lijah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Lijahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Lijah was born before 2016 — so the typical Lijah is around 9 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 44.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 97.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 219
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 44.3% of all recorded uses (97).
Is Lijah 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
- +927
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +236
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +4,095
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.38×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (19)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 43.9% average annual change
Spellings of Lijah
Lijah is not the most common spelling — Elijah is, with 42.1% against Lijah'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.
Lijah around the world
Where Lijah 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 & Wales2014–2025#5,137in 2025
- South Australia1991–1991#481in 1991
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.
Lijah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Lijah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Lijah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.