girls:
1.3k births since 1994
#4425 (23rd percentile)
boys:
710 births since 1991
#3877 (15th percentile)
overall:
2k births since 1991
#5767 (25th percentile)
The name Eliyah is the #5,767 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,008 recorded births since 1991. This represents the 25.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 25.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,425 (22.6% percentile) for all time with 1,298 births since 1994. For boys, it ranks #3,877 (15.4% percentile) for all time with 710 births since 1991.
Eliyah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1991 (1991 for boys and 1994 for girls).
The name Eliyah has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (64.6% of all recorded births). In 2023, 66.3% of babies named Eliyah were girls. Interestingly, until around 1997, the name was more popular for boys (66.7% boys from 1991 to 1996), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (65.5% girls from 1997 to 2023).
For girls, Eliyah reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 7.1% percentile (ranked #878) with 39 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 39 births per million (ranked 7.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Eliyah is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #885 (6.6% percentile) with 38 births per million.
For boys, Eliyah reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 4.1% percentile (ranked #879) with 22 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 23 births per million (ranked 4.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Eliyah ranks #882 for boys (3.2% percentile) with 19 births per million, which is 80.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Eliyah".
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Our model has identified 13 different pronunciations for the name Eliyah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 19.0% confident that Eliyah is pronounced as ee-LAI-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is eh-LEE-uh, at 16.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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