Eliya
Feminine · “my God is the Lord”
Eliya is given to both — 836 girls and 196 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Eliya is a form of Eliyahu — Elijah — and the name is an argument in three syllables: my God is the Lord.
How old is the name Eliya?
Eliya first appears in US birth records in 1993 — 32 years ago. The typical Eliya is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 800 people named Eliya are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Eliya most popular?
Eliya peaked in 2012, reaching #3523 nationally. Today it ranks #3975, 452 places below that high. See the whole 2012 chart.
Where it comes from
From Eliyahu to Eliya
The story of Eliya
Elijah confronts the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel and asks the people how long they will go on limping between two opinions — and his own name has already answered. He does not die but is taken up in a whirlwind, which is why a cup is set for him at Passover. Eliya is a modern Hebrew and Israeli form used for both sexes.
Meaning
my God is the Lord
From Hebrew eli, my God, and yahu, a form of the divine name; the whole name is a statement of which god is God, which is exactly the question the prophet spends his career on.
How the name formed
- Eliyahu
- Eliya
Related forms: Eliyahu · Elijah · Ilyas
Pronouncing Eliya
eh-LEE-yah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Hebrew gives eh-lee-YAH.
Nicknames for Eliya
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
- 1993
- Most girls named
- 201245 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3523reached in 2012
- Change vs 2024
- +5.9%36 in 2025, from 34
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.
Eliya in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Eliyahu in Hebrew — related form
- Elijah in English — same name
- Ilyas in Arabic — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Florida, Texas.
Eliyas among us
people named Eliya are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 44,646 born in 2025 was named Eliya
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Eliya
- #3975
- Eliya on the 2025 chart
- #539
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Eliya went to 36 girls in 2025, but Elia, Ellia and Eliyah and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 8 spellings went to 466, which makes it the 539th most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,436 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 3,449 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 44,646 for Eliya 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 Dandra test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Eliya's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Dandra climbed just as high around 1990, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Dandra's path sketches the road Eliya is walking now.
Eliya 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 Eliya is headed
Eliya should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. 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.
Eliya beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Eliya in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning that forms a complete and rather forceful sentence.
- Eli is a complete short form in very current use.
- Five letters and three syllables, quick to write.
- It is used for both sexes, so forms may guess wrong.
- Eliya, Aliya and Eliana are all close in an American ear.
- Elijah is far more common in English and looks quite different.
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Frequently asked
- How many Eliyas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Eliya are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Eliya?
- Eliya is one of 8 recorded spellings. Elia is the more common one — 263 births in 2025 against 36 for Eliya.
- How popular is the name Eliya in 2025?
- Eliya ranks #3975 among US girl names in 2025, with 36 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Eliya?
- About 1 in every 44,646 US girls born in 2025 was named Eliya — 36 in all.
- Will my child share the name Eliya with classmates?
- Eliya will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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