boys:
1.1k births since 1979
#3477 (24th percentile)
overall:
1.1k births since 1979
#6613 (15th percentile)
The name Elijiah is the #6,613 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,126 recorded births since 1979. This represents the 14.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 14.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,477 (24.1% percentile) for all time with 1,126 births since 1979.
Elijiah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1979 (first recorded for boys in 1979). Birth data for Elijiah is available in 34 out of the 45 years between 1979 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Elijiah reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 7.7% percentile (ranked #837) with 34 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 35 births per million (ranked 7.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2011, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Elijiah ranks #904 for boys (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 19.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elijiah".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Elijiah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 67.6% confident that Elijiah is pronounced as ih-LAI-juh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ee-LAI-juh, at 16.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like IH0 L AY1 JH AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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