Name meaning & stats
Elijah
Elijah means “Yahweh is my God” (Hebrew origin). 372,759 US babies since 1940, peak 2011.
What it means
“Yahweh is my God”
HebrewWell documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 2011
372,759 US babies were named Elijah between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Elijah (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
Elijah is the main spelling
- Elijah 99%
- Elyjah 1%
- Elijiah <1%
- Elija <1%
- Elijha <1%
- Ellijah <1%
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2011)