girls:
37 births since 2001
#5679 (1st percentile)
boys:
102 births since 1978
#4484 (2nd percentile)
overall:
139 births since 1978
#7600 (2nd percentile)
The name Elisah is the #7,600 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 139 recorded births since 1978. This represents the 1.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,484 (2.2% percentile) for all time with 102 births since 1978. For girls, it ranks #5,679 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 37 births since 2001.
Elisah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1978 (1978 for boys and 2001 for girls). Birth data for Elisah is available in 19 out of the 38 years between 1978 and 2015 (16 years for boys and 6 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 Elisah has been given predominantly to boys, with 73.4% of all recorded births being male. In 2015, 100.0% of babies named Elisah were boys.
For boys, Elisah reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #805) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 6 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2015.
For girls, Elisah reached its peak popularity in 2013, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #928) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2013, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2014.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elisah".
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Our model has identified 17 different pronunciations for the name Elisah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 18.6% confident that Elisah is pronounced as ih-LEE-suh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ih-LAI-suh, at 18.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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