Elijah (45 ways): Pronunciations

How to Pronounce Elijah

Our model has identified 45 different spellings of Elijah that are grouped together because they share at least one of 6 different pronunciations. If something seems off, you can help us improve our grouping algorithm by rating whether pronunciations are correct or incorrect for a given spelling.

The audio files on this page are organized by pronunciation. Click the play button next to each spelling to hear that pronunciation spoken aloud for a particular spelling.

Our model is 40.7% confident that Elijah is pronounced as ee-LAI-juh. There are 25 other spelling variants that share this pronunciation.

The next most likely pronunciation for Elijah is ih-LAI-juh, at 25.9% confidence. There are 31 other spelling variants that share this pronunciation.

ih-LAI-juh

71.1%

366,438

95.53%

25.9%

ee-LAI-juh

57.8%

365,241

95.21%

40.7%

ih-LEE-juh

40.0%

362,103

94.40%

3.7%

uh-LAI-juh

31.1%

376,202

98.07%

13.0%

eh-LAI-juh

20.0%

360,411

93.95%

11.1%

EH-lai-juh

8.9%

359,282

93.66%

5.6%

ee-LAI-juh (3 syllables)

26 names (57.8% of variations) 95.21% of births

IY0 L AY1 JH AH0

Elijah

Verified

Confidence: 40.7%

Confidence: 25.6%

Confidence: 23.5%

Confidence: 16.2%

Confidence: 17.1%

Confidence: 6.5%

Confidence: 14.6%

Confidence: 2.6%

Confidence: 14.7%

Confidence: 31.3%

ih-LAI-juh (3 syllables)

32 names (71.1% of variations) 95.53% of births

IH0 L AY1 JH AH0

Confidence: 25.9%

Confidence: 33.3%

Confidence: 41.2%

Confidence: 67.6%

Confidence: 48.6%

Confidence: 61.1%

Confidence: 78.1%

Confidence: 17.4%

Confidence: 46.3%

Confidence: 10.3%

uh-LAI-juh (3 syllables)

14 names (31.1% of variations) 98.07% of births

AH0 L AY1 JH AH0

Elijah

Verified

Confidence: 13.0%

Alijah

Verified

Confidence: 60.5%

Confidence: 15.6%

Confidence: 38.1%

Confidence: 41.7%

Confidence: 12.5%

Confidence: 36.1%

Verified

Confidence: 14.6%

Ahlijah

Confidence: 45.7%

Allijah

Confidence: 31.6%

eh-LAI-juh (3 syllables)

9 names (20.0% of variations) 93.95% of births

EH0 L AY1 JH AH0

Elijah

Verified

Confidence: 11.1%

Confidence: 11.1%

Confidence: 6.5%

Confidence: 7.3%

Confidence: 6.3%

Confidence: 10.3%

Confidence: 2.7%

Confidence: 11.4%

Confidence: 15.6%

EH-lai-juh (3 syllables)

4 names (8.9% of variations) 93.66% of births

EH1 L AY0 JH AH0

Confidence: 5.6%

Confidence: 2.7%

Confidence: 2.5%

Confidence: 9.4%

ih-LEE-juh (3 syllables)

18 names (40.0% of variations) 94.40% of births

IH0 L IY1 JH AH0

Confidence: 3.7%

Confidence: 14.7%

Confidence: 17.1%

Confidence: 9.4%

Confidence: 50.0%

Confidence: 10.0%

Confidence: 5.4%

Confidence: 2.7%

Confidence: 7.5%

Confidence: 10.3%

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Elijah. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Elijah, please vote using the thumbs up button.

ai-LAI-juh (3 syllables)

1 name 5 births

AY0 L AY1 JH AH0

Should "Elijah" have this pronunciation?

Names with this pronunciation:

Eilijah 5 births

ah-LAI-juh (3 syllables)

1 name 6 births

AA0 L AY1 JH AH0

Should "Elijah" have this pronunciation?

Names with this pronunciation:

Aalayjah 6 births

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like IY0 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.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable. It's really hard to get a text-to-speech model to say names the way you want it to. And describing how vowels are emphasized in English is a bit of a mess.