Eligah
Eligah is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 597th, in 1902.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191852 births
- Best rank
- #597in 1902
- Since 1880
- 1,740people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,740 boys have been named Eligah in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 52 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 52 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1933, and the 1920s alone account for 19%. It has spent 19 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Eligah | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 30 | |
| 1890s | 63 | |
| 1900s | 86 | |
| 1910s | 258 | |
| 1920s | 330 | |
| 1930s | 266 | |
| 1940s | 197 | |
| 1950s | 134 | |
| 1960s | 37 | |
| 1970s | 34 | |
| 1980s | 61 | |
| 1990s | 67 | |
| 2000s | 113 | |
| 2010s | 52 | |
| 2020s | 12 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Eligah was the 922nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1918 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Eligah
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Colliepeak 1915
- Powellpeak 1919
- Ennispeak 1922
- Clarancepeak 1926
- Elziepeak 1917
- Haywoodpeak 1919
- Artherpeak 1922
- Clarencepeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.