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Elijah Names for Boys

There are 5 Elijah names for baby boys. Displayed on this page are Elijah names 1 to 5. Elijah was the most popular among these names in 2008. The name is primarily used in English, and it was followed in popularity by the English, Finnish, German, Greek, Hungarian, Portuguese, Scandinavian, Czech, Dutch, Spanish, and Yiddish Elias, the English Elliot, the English and Hebrew Elisha, and the English and Welsh name, Ellis.

Elijah names are fairly popular baby names for boys, and they are also considered rather trendy. The names have been increasing in popularity since the 1960s. At the recent height of their usage in 2008, 0.796% of baby boys were given Elijah names. There were 5 Elijah names ranked within the top 1000 baby names then. In 2008, within all Elijah names, the English Elijah was the most commonly used, with a ranking of #22 and a usage of 0.6042%.

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NAME MATCH:

Elijah Popularity Trend of Elijah
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 22 22 my God is Yahweh ... boy name Elijah is pronounced as ehLAYJHah or ... are old forms of Elijah ...

DESCRIPTION MATCH:

Elias Popularity Trend of Elias
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 157 157 my God is Yahweh ... as the Greek cognate of Elijah in the Bible ...

Elisha Popularity Trend of Elisha
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 636 636 God is salvation ... and successor of Elijah in the Bible ...

Elliot Popularity Trend of Elliot
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 332 332 my God is Yahweh ... ultimately of the name Elijah ...

Ellis Popularity Trend of Ellis
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 798 798 my God is Yahweh; kind ... Elias and ultimately Elijah ...


Popularity Trend
for Elijah Names
from 1900 to 2006Variant Popularity Chart
for Elijah Names
in 2006