Elaiya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- e-LY-a
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,690 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #4,986 for girls
Elaiya is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 1,690th for girls in the UK (18 babies) and 4,986th for girls in the US (26 babies).
Where does Elaiya come from?
Modern name of uncertain origin
Is Elaiya a girl's or a boy's name?
Elaiya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 18 girls in the UK and 26 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Elaiya in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,690th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 18 about 1 in 15,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 308% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 18 girls in the UK were named Elaiya, making it the 1,690th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,110th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 20 girls.
Half of all the girls named Elaiya in the UK since 1996 were born between 2022 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 87 girls in the UK were given Elaiya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #495, up from #1,690 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,639th in England and Wales.
Elaiya in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #1,690 |
| 2024 | 11 | #2,480 |
| 2023 | 20 | #1,611 |
| 2022 | 16 | #1,873 |
| 2021 | 8 | #3,082 |
| 2020 | 5 | #4,110 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 7 | #3,344 |
How popular is Elaiya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,986th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 26 about 1 in 62,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 76% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 26 girls in the US were named Elaiya, making it the 4,986th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,401st. It first appears in the records in 2013.
2025 had the most girls named Elaiya of any year since it first appeared, in 2013.
Half of all the girls named Elaiya in the US since 1880 were born between 2019 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 200 girls in the US were given Elaiya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,058, up from #4,986 for this spelling alone.
Elaiya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #4,986 |
| 2024 | 11 | #8,941 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,635 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,225 |
| 2021 | 16 | #6,962 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,401 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,337 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,542 |
Names like Elaiya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Abeeha, Safa, Nusaybah, Hafsa, Ayra, Safiya, Rumaysa, Ruqayyah, Rahma, Safaa, Aafiyah, Irha
Other spellings of Elaiya
Names related to Elaiya
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Elaiya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/elaiya, updated 20 October 2026.