girls:
170 births since 1999
#5546 (3rd percentile)
boys:
5 births since 2001
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
175 births since 1999
#7564 (2nd percentile)
The name Elaijah is the #7,564 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 175 recorded births since 1999. This represents the 2.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,546 (2.9% percentile) for all time with 170 births since 1999. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2001.
Elaijah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1999 (1999 for girls and 2001 for boys). Birth data for Elaijah is available in 19 out of the 25 years between 1999 and 2023 (19 years for girls and 1 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Elaijah has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 97.1% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Elaijah reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #934) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Elaijah ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 44.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Elaijah reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #825) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2001.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elaijah".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Elaijah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 46.3% confident that Elaijah is pronounced as ih-LAI-juh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is eh-LAY-juh, at 26.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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