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Elianah

Gender
Girl
Say it
el-ee-AH-na
Origin
Hebrew
UK rank, 2025
#3,101 for girls
US rank, 2025
#2,458 for girls

Elianah is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “my God has answered”. In 2025 it ranked 3,101st for girls in the UK (8 babies) and 2,458th for girls in the US (72 babies).

What does Elianah mean?

Hebrew: spelling of Eliana; Hebrew name; also an Italian and Spanish form of the Roman Aeliana

“my God has answered”

A Hebrew name built on El, God; in Italian and Spanish it also continues the Roman name Aeliana.

Meaning borrowed from Eliana. More on Wiktionary.

Is Elianah a girl's or a boy's name?

Elianah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the UK and 72 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Elianah in the UK?

Rank in 2025
3,101st among girls
Babies in 2025
8 about 1 in 35,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 8 girls in the UK were named Elianah, making it the 3,101st most popular name for girls.

2025 had the most girls named Elianah of any year since it first appeared, in 2006.

In 2025, 946 girls in the UK were given Elianah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #57, up from #3,101 for this spelling alone.

Among girls in 2025, it was 3,033rd in England and Wales.

2006Busiest: 8 in 20252025
Elianah in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20258#3,101
20240–
20230–
20223#5,885
20215#4,148
20200–
20190–
20180–
20170–
20160–
20150–
20144#4,888
20134#4,953
20120–
20114#4,980
20100–
20090–
20080–
20070–
20061#6,685

How popular is Elianah in the US?

Rank in 2025
2,458th among girls
Babies in 2025
72 about 1 in 22,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steady much the same
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 72 girls in the US were named Elianah, making it the 2,458th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,777th. It first appears in the records in 2001.

2025 had the most girls named Elianah of any year since it first appeared, in 2001.

Half of all the girls named Elianah in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 11,101 girls in the US were given Elianah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #8, up from #2,458 for this spelling alone.

2001Busiest: 72 in 20252025
Elianah in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202572#2,458
202440#3,758
202316#6,917
202236#4,039
202141#3,677
202038#3,777
201954#3,002
201836#4,000
201727#4,920
201639#3,849
201541#3,704
201440#3,776
201347#3,365
201243#3,643
201134#4,243
201040#3,815
200925#5,535
200813#8,961
200723#5,891
200612#9,282
200515#7,495
20047#12,754
20038#11,319
20027#12,181
20015#15,345

Nicknames for Elianah

Names like Elianah

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Elianah

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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, “Elianah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/elianah, updated 20 October 2026.