girls:
766 births since 1993
#4950 (13th percentile)
boys:
169 births since 2002
#4417 (4th percentile)
overall:
935 births since 1993
#6804 (12th percentile)
The name Eliya is the #6,804 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 935 recorded births since 1993. This represents the 12.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 12.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,950 (13.4% percentile) for all time with 766 births since 1993. For boys, it ranks #4,417 (3.6% percentile) for all time with 169 births since 2002.
Eliya first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1993 (1993 for girls and 2002 for boys). Birth data for Eliya is available in 29 out of the 31 years between 1993 and 2023 (29 years for girls and 18 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 Eliya has been given predominantly to girls, with 81.9% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 73.9% of babies named Eliya were girls.
For girls, Eliya reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 4.3% percentile (ranked #897) with 23 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 25 births per million (ranked 4.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Eliya ranks #918 for girls (3.1% percentile) with 19 births per million, which is 79.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Eliya reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #900) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Eliya ranks #904 for boys (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 70.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Eliya".
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Our model has identified 13 different pronunciations for the name Eliya. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 18.6% confident that Eliya is pronounced as eh-LEE-yuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is eh-LEE-uh, at 16.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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