Elijah
1.66k
Babies in 2024
+48%
10-year change
2020
Peak · 1.67k
+12%
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 Elijah
Elijah is one of the more popular UK boys' names in the latest ONS data, ranked #23 for boys born in 2024 with 1,661 babies registered in England & Wales.
Elijah reached its peak in 2020, when 1,668 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #30 for UK boys that year. Today's count is broadly in line with the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 22,369 boys have been officially registered with the name Elijah in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 16,499 boys were registered with the name, starting from 1,125 in 2014 and ending at 1,661 in 2024.