Eliora
Feminine · “my God is my light”
Eliora is built from two of the oldest words in Hebrew — El, God, and or, light — and it says something close to "my God is my light." The sentence behind it is older than the name: Psalm 27 opens with "The Lord is my light and my salvation." Four syllables, the stress landing on that bright OR in the middle, with the same soft -a ending that Eliana and Aurora share.
How old is the name Eliora?
Eliora first appears in US birth records in 2000 — 25 years ago. The typical Eliora is a kid of about 5 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,700 people named Eliora are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Eliora most popular?
Eliora peaked in 2025, reaching #914 nationally. Today it ranks #914, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Or (Hebrew: light) to Eliora
The story of Eliora
The pieces are ancient, but the name is not. Eliora belongs to a wave of modern Hebrew names assembled in the twentieth century from scriptural vocabulary — light-names in particular, alongside Liora, Ora and Orli — and it circulates in Israel as the distinctly feminine partner to Elior, which is given there to boys and girls alike. It reached English-speaking countries through Jewish families first, then more widely as parents went looking for names in the large Eli- family that were not already Eliana or Elizabeth. Its American record is short and still lengthening; almost everyone who carries it here is young.
Meaning
my God is my light
From Hebrew El (God) joined to or (light), with the feminine ending -a. Some sources render it more loosely as "God is my light" or "the Lord is my light"; the elements themselves are not in dispute.
How the name formed
- OrHebrew: light
- Liora
- Elior
- Eliora
Related forms: אליאורה · Elior · Liora · Eleora · Elliora
Pronouncing Eliora
el-ee-OR-uh
Four syllables, stress on the third. In Hebrew it often compresses to el-YOR-ah, and both are heard in American use — worth deciding early which one you will answer to.
Nicknames for Eliora
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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
- 2000
- Most girls named
- 2025287 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #914reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +63.1%287 in 2025, from 176
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.
Eliora in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- אליאורה in Hebrew — transliteration
- Elior in Hebrew — related form
- Liora in Hebrew — related form
- Eleora in English — spelling variant
- Elliora in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, New York.
Elioras among us
people named Eliora are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 5,600 born in 2025 was named Eliora
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Anneliese test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Eliora's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Anneliese climbed just as high around 2005, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Anneliese's path sketches the road Eliora is walking now.
Eliora is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Eliora is headed
Eliora looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 27% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low 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.
Eliora beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Eliora in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is transparent and traceable to a documented Hebrew phrase, not a guess — "my God is my light."
- Comes with short forms people already know how to spell: Ellie, Ella, Elle.
- Sits inside the very familiar Eli- family — Elijah, Eliana, Elior — so it is unfamiliar without being unreadable.
- Works in both Hebrew and English settings, with a Hebrew-style nickname (Ori) already in real use.
- It will be misheard as Eliana, which is far more common in American classrooms. Expect to repeat it, and to spell it — Eleora and Elliora are both in circulation.
- The stress is not obvious to a first-time reader. Some will try EL-ee-or-a, others el-YOR-ah.
- Ellie, the natural nickname, is shared with a great many other names — so if you were choosing Eliora partly for its rarity, the everyday form may not carry that.
- The name's American history is short, so there is no long line of grown Elioras for a child to look up to. Nearly everyone with this name here is still a child.
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Frequently asked
- How many Elioras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,700 people named Eliora are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Eliora in 2025?
- Eliora ranks #914 among US girl names in 2025, with 287 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Eliora?
- About 1 in every 5,600 US girls born in 2025 was named Eliora — 287 in all.
- Will my child share the name Eliora with classmates?
- Eliora will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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