Eliaz
Masculine · “my God is strength”
Eliaz sits among a whole family of Hebrew names that open with the word for God — Elias, Eliezer, Eliah, Eliav — and it carries that opening plainly. The z at the end is the part that varies.
How old is the name Eliaz?
Eliaz first appears in US birth records in 1998 — 27 years ago. The typical Eliaz is a kid of about 9 — this name's wave is very recent. About 500 people named Eliaz are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Eliaz most popular?
Eliaz peaked in 2025, reaching #3240 nationally. Today it ranks #3240, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From El to Eliaz
The story of Eliaz
Hebrew builds names as short sentences, and the El- opening is one of the most productive: Eliezer is my God is help, Eliav is my God is father, Elior is my God is light. Eliaz belongs to that group and is used in modern Israel on the strength reading. Separately, Spanish-speaking and Portuguese families have used Eliaz as a spelling of Elias, the Greek form of Elijah. Both lines appear in American records.
Meaningscholars disagree
my God is strength
The El at the front is settled: it is the Hebrew word for God, and it opens a large group of names. The second element is read either as oz, strength, giving my God is strength, or as a variant spelling of the ending of Elias, in which case the name is simply that one respelled.
How the name formed
- El
- Eliaz
Related forms: Elias · Elías · Elior
Pronouncing Eliaz
eh-lee-AHZ
Three syllables with the stress at the end in Hebrew. English speakers usually say ee-LY-az.
Nicknames for Eliaz
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1998
- Most boys named
- 202536 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3240reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +100.0%36 in 2025, from 18
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Eliaz in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Elias in Hebrew — related form
- Elías in Spanish — related form
- Elior in Hebrew — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Eliazs among us
people named Eliaz are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 47,447 born in 2025 was named Eliaz
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Eliaz
- #3240
- Eliaz on the 2025 chart
- #16
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Eliaz went to 36 boys in 2025, but Elias and Elyas are the same name said out loud. Together the 5 spellings went to 9,081, which makes it the 16th most-given boys’ name of the year — 3,224 places above the chart.
and 2 rarer spellings.
About 1 boy in 188 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 47,447 for Eliaz itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Saahil test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Eliaz's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Saahil climbed just as high around 2005, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Saahil's path sketches the road Eliaz is walking now.
Eliaz sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Eliaz is headed
Eliaz should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Eliaz beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Eliaz in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The El opening is documented and shared with a large family of well-known names.
- Eli is a ready short form that is plain and very widely used.
- It ends on a z, which keeps it distinct on any list.
- Elias is far better known and will be assumed and written for him.
- The stress differs between the Hebrew and English readings.
- The second element has two readings, so the meaning question has a fork in it.
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Frequently asked
- How many Eliazs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Eliaz are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Eliaz?
- Eliaz is one of 3 recorded spellings. Elias is the more common one — 8,837 births in 2025 against 36 for Eliaz.
- How popular is the name Eliaz in 2025?
- Eliaz ranks #3240 among US boy names in 2025, with 36 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Eliaz?
- About 1 in every 47,447 US boys born in 2025 was named Eliaz — 36 in all.
- Will my child share the name Eliaz with classmates?
- Eliaz will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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