Eliyah

given name · Latin script

Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree

  • United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed under both sexes
  • France (INSEE, 2024): listed as female
  • Netherlands (Meertens NVB): listed as male

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 25 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026

/əlijah/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated

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Eliyah is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

  • NLNetherlands1 in 123K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 262K
  • SESweden1 in 268K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

1,271 people, 2020

Record sources
43 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 123K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Eliyah counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Eliyah is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,2711 in 262K817Eliyah5
NL Netherlands1401 in 123K116——
SE Sweden381 in 268K38——
DK Denmark111 in 534K11——
PL Poland61 in 6.4M4——
GY Guyana21 in 375K2——

1,271 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Eliyah is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hebrew given name32 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, Morocco, Qatar, United States

    Languages: Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written אליהו, Eliyahu, Eliahu, Elya, Elijah

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

How to address them

(machine-generated)
InformalHi Eliyah,

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence

(measured from records)

34 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Eliyah
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020817#10,473
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020454#10,473
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—116#4,028
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202490—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202557—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—55#11,193
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—38#16,520
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202535—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—24#13,201
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202017—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—16#22,173
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—11#7,712

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Eliyah a male or female name?
Eliyah is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed under both sexes; France (INSEE, 2024): listed as female; Netherlands (Meertens NVB): listed as male. We don't publish a percentage split.
How do you pronounce Eliyah?
In Indonesian /əlijah/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
In which country does Eliyah have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Eliyah, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled eliyah.
Where is Eliyah most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Eliyah is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 123 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Eliyah?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,271 people named Eliyah in 2020, about 1 in 262 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Eliyah”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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