Elija
4
Babies in 2024
-79%
10-year change
2016
Peak · 29
-64%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Elija
Elija has been falling out of fashion as a UK girl's name. In 2024, 4 girls were registered with the name in England & Wales — down 79% on a decade earlier.
Elija reached its peak in 2016, when 29 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #1,172 for UK girls that year. That's roughly 14% of the peak — registrations have thinned out since.
Across 16 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 204 girls have been officially registered with the name Elija in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 154 girls were registered with the name, starting from 19 in 2014 and ending at 4 in 2024.