Eliyahu
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/əɫijɑhu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Eliyahu is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Qatar it is the 19th most common given name.
- ILIsrael≈1 in 344as אליהו(inferred from the name graph)
- QAQatar≈1 in 428as אליהו
- USUnited States1 in 1.3Kas Elijah
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Eliyahu itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 179 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.6K (inferred from the name graph)
252,751 named Elijah, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled אליהו in IL Israel, US United States, MA Morocco and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Eliyahu, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Eliyahu 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 252,751as Elijah | 1 in 1.3K | 252K | אליהו | 179 |
| IL Israel | #21 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 344 | 10K | אליהו | 95 |
| MA Morocco | #126 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | אליהו | 4 |
| RO Romania | #732 | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Eliyahu | 10 |
| QA Qatar | #19 | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 428 | — | אליהו | 1 |
| TN Tunisia | #53 | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | אליהו | 3 |
| CY Cyprus | #889 | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | — | Eliyahu | 7 |
252,751 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling elijah. 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Eliyahu is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Jewish: Hebrew name meaning ‘Jehovah is God’, familiar in the English-speaking world in the form ELIJAH . Pet form: Elye (Yiddish) .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gaon of Vilniusb. 1720BYnot in their usual namePolish-Lithuanian rabbi and Talmudist (1720–1797)
- Eliyahu Golombb. 1893BYIsraeli activist (1893-1945)
- Eliyahu Hakimb. 1925LBMember of Lehi (1925-1945)
- Eliyahu Winogradb. 1926ILIsraeli judge (1926-2018)
- Eliyahu Ben-Elissarb. 1932ILIsraeli diplomat (1932-2000)
- Menahem E. Yaarib. 1935ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli economist
- Eliahu Inbalb. 1936ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli conductor
- Eliyahu Bakshi-Doronb. 1941ILIsraeli rabbi
- Eliyahu M. Goldrattmmnjb. 1947ILIsraeli business management author and thinker (1947-2011)
- Eliyahu Ripsb. 1948ILIsraeli-Latvian mathematician (1948-2024)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
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)
Attested in 27 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 145 | #124,450 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 112 | #147,253 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Eliyahu a male or female name?
- Eliyahu is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Eliyahu?
- In the etymology graph, Elias, Elijah and Elia are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Eliyahu?
- A machine transcription gives /əɫijɑhu/ (IPA) for Hebrew.
- In which country does Eliyahu have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 253 thousand people named Elijah, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Eliyahu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 252,751 people named Elijah in 2020, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Eliyahu compared with other names?
- In Qatar, Eliyahu is the 19th most common given name of 12,797 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Eliyahu?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/eliyahuThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Eliyahu” — the 19th most common given name in Qatar. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.