Elijah

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Meaning

Elijah is a masculine given name after the prophet Elijah in the Hebrew Bible. Elijah was among the five most popular names for Black newborn boys in the American state of Virginia in 2022 and again in 2023. In 2022, it was the 37th-most popular name given to boys in Canada.

From Wikipedia

Elijah first appears in the data in 1983 and has been recorded in 26 different years as a boy's name. Its single biggest year was 2014 with 76 babies (rank #176 that year). It was not in the 2017 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Elijah

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Elijah yields these three numbers โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

578
Total babies (all years)
26
Years in the data
76
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time โ€” Boys

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
19831#1,233
19841#1,246
19851#1,267
19922#1,187
19932#1,190
19944#1,010
19953#1,110
19963#1,107
19974#1,034
19989#785
19997#860
200010#762
20017#889
200211#735
200323#509
200422#512
200534#397
200634#390
200728#424
200831#398
200938#343
201050#268
201148#284
201260#227
201369#199
201476#176