Eliud
Masculine · “God of majesty”
Eliud is a name from a list: it appears once in the whole Bible, in Matthew's genealogy of Jesus, and nothing else is said about the man. That single line carried it into Spanish-speaking Catholic naming, where it has been steadily used for a century while English-speakers have barely met it.
How old is the name Eliud?
Eliud first appears in US birth records in 1931 — 94 years ago. The typical Eliud alive today was born around 2001, making them about 24 years old. About 1,500 people named Eliud are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Eliud most popular?
Eliud peaked in 1975, reaching #1787 nationally. Today it ranks #5208, 3,421 places below that high. See the whole 1975 chart.
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Where it comes from
From ʾĔlîhûd to Eliud
The story of Eliud
Matthew names Eliud among the ancestors between the exile and Joseph, and that is his entire appearance in scripture. Names harvested from the genealogies had a long life in Catholic Spanish America, where the saints' calendar and the biblical lists were both mined for children, and Eliud settled particularly in Mexico. It reaches American records through Mexican-American families, and its twentieth-century peak sits with them. The Kenyan marathoner Eliud Kipchoge has made the name far more familiar to English-speakers since 2016 than it ever was before, though Kenyan use of it comes from missionary Bible naming by a separate road.
Meaningscholars disagree
God of majesty
The Greek Elioud of Matthew 1:14-15 represents a Hebrew name usually reconstructed as ʾĔlîhûd, from ʾēl, God, and hôd, majesty or splendor. Some read it instead as my God is praise, or connect the second element to Judah. The first element is not in doubt; the second is.
How the name formed
- ʾĔlîhûd
- Elioud
- Eliud
Related forms: Ἐλιούδ · Eliud · אֱלִיהוּד
Pronouncing Eliud
eh-lee-OOD
Three syllables, stress on the last, in Spanish. English speakers often say ee-LYOOD or EL-ee-ud. The Spanish saying is the one most bearers use.
Nicknames for Eliud
Limited
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
- 1931
- Most boys named
- 200843 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1787reached in 1975
- Change vs 2023
- −45.5%18 in 2025, from 33
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.
Eliud in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Ἐλιούδ in Greek — transliteration
- Eliud in Spanish — same name
- אֱלִיהוּד in Hebrew — transliteration
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California.
Eliuds among us
people named Eliud are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 94,893 born in 2025 was named Eliud
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 Jae test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Eliud's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jae climbed just as high around 1957, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jae's path sketches the road Eliud is walking now.
Eliud 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
Eliud beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Eliud in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It is genuinely biblical without being one of the twenty names everyone knows.
- Eli comes free as a short form and is popular in its own right.
- It is spelled the same in Spanish and English.
- Outside Spanish-speaking and Kenyan communities it is unfamiliar and will be misread.
- The stress falls differently in Spanish and English, so bearers get both.
- The meaning is only partly settled.
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Masculine · #5208 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Eliuds are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,500 people named Eliud are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Eliud in 2025?
- Eliud ranks #5208 among US boy names in 2025, with 18 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Eliud?
- About 1 in every 94,893 US boys born in 2025 was named Eliud — 18 in all.
- Will my child share the name Eliud with classmates?
- Eliud will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Eliud
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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