Hello, my name isGirlBoy
Elijah
Pronounced /ɪˈlaɪd͡ʒə/
Rank in 2024
#8
Born in 2024
11,171
Peak year
2011 · #13
Origin
Hebrew
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 11,171 boys were named Elijah, about 1 in every 154.
- It peaked in 2011 with 13,997 babies, ranked #13.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 369,304 boys have been named Elijah since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Elijah per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.3Greatest1901–27
- 0.2Silent1928–45
- 0.1Boomers1946–64
- 0.2Gen X1965–80
- 0.8Millennials1981–96
- 5.4Gen Z1997–12
- 7.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 4,859 babies, 0.29 per 1,000. Silent: 4,003 babies, 0.19 per 1,000. Boomers: 4,206 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Gen X: 4,817 babies, 0.18 per 1,000. Millennials: 24,117 babies, 0.79 per 1,000. Gen Z: 169,590 babies, 5.40 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 156,066 babies, 7.18 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Hebrew אליהו (Eliyahu, literally “Yahweh is my god”). Doublet of Ilya and Iliya. Compare Joel. See also Arabic إلياس.
- A unisex given name from Hebrew, of chiefly male usage
- A male given name from Hebrew.
- A female given name from Hebrew, of chiefly Philippine usage.
- A surname transferred from the given name [in turn from Hebrew]
- Origin
- Hebrew
- Say it
- /ɪˈlaɪd͡ʒə/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Elijah, CC BY-SA 4.0.