Elias

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Elias is ranked 25th among boys in 2024 (7,653 births). Its best rank was 25th, in 2024.

Rank in 2024: #25up 11 from 2023
Births in 2024: 7,6530.45% of boys
Peak year: 20247,653 births
Best rank: #25in 2024
Since 1880: 120,370people given the name

Babies named Elias, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

120,370 boys have been named Elias in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2024, with 7,653 births — 0.45% of all boys recorded that year.

It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2024, within the last few years of data.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2014, and the 2010s alone account for 34%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 10 of them in the top 100.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Elias
1880s	450
1890s	302
1900s	254
1910s	1,144
1920s	1,766
1930s	1,355
1940s	1,227
1950s	1,548
1960s	1,774
1970s	2,961
1980s	4,481
1990s	8,856
2000s	19,616
2010s	40,913
2020s	33,723

In 2024, its biggest year

Elias was the 25th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2024 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Theodore and James. See all of 2024.

Names that rose and fell with Elias

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

Elyas1,926 ever

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.