girls:
439 births since 1996
#5277 (8th percentile)
boys:
1.1k births since 1972
#3511 (23rd percentile)
overall:
1.5k births since 1972
#6216 (20th percentile)
The name Eliah is the #6,216 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,529 recorded births since 1972. This represents the 19.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 19.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,511 (23.4% percentile) for all time with 1,090 births since 1972. For girls, it ranks #5,277 (7.6% percentile) for all time with 439 births since 1996.
Eliah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1972 (1972 for boys and 1996 for girls). Birth data for Eliah is available in 46 out of the 52 years between 1972 and 2023 (46 years for boys and 27 years for girls). 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 Eliah has been given predominantly to boys, with 71.3% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 71.7% of babies named Eliah were boys.
For boys, Eliah reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 5.7% percentile (ranked #850) with 26 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 29 births per million (ranked 5.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Eliah ranks #878 for boys (3.6% percentile) with 21 births per million, which is 72.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Eliah reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 2.3% percentile (ranked #935) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 14 births per million (ranked 2.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Eliah ranks #937 for girls (1.1% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 61.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Eliah".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Eliah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 46.2% confident that Eliah is pronounced as ih-LAI-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ee-LAI-uh, at 15.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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