Elaiyah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- e-LY-a
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,935 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #9,454 for girls
Elaiyah is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies) and 9,454th for girls in the US (10 babies).
Where does Elaiyah come from?
Spelling of Elaiya; modern name of uncertain origin
Meaning borrowed from Elaiya.
Is Elaiyah a girl's or a boy's name?
Elaiyah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK and 10 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Elaiyah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,935among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 4about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fastup 325% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Elaiyah, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2023, with 10 girls.
In 2025, 87 girls in the UK were given Elaiyah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #495, up from #4,935 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.
Elaiyah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,935 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 10 | #2,640 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 1 | #7,346 |
| 2018 | 3 | #5,896 |
How popular is Elaiyah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #9,454among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 10about 1 in 160,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 10 girls in the US were named Elaiyah, making it the 9,454th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 11 girls. It first appears in the records in 2017.
Half of all the girls named Elaiyah in the US since 1880 were born between 2020 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 200 girls in the US were given Elaiyah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,058, up from #9,454 for this spelling alone.
Elaiyah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,454 |
| 2024 | 11 | #8,941 |
| 2023 | 11 | #8,984 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,225 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,245 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,459 |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,898 |
Names like Elaiyah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Nusaybah Ayah Safa Ruqayyah Aafiyah Sumayyah Abeeha Aaliyah Hiba Alaiyah Azeemah Zainab
Other spellings of Elaiyah
Names related to Elaiyah
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, “Elaiyah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/elaiyah, updated 20 October 2026.