Elayah

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Elayah: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Elayah: Recorded every year since 2013, its highest recorded position is #2,488, and it stood at #3,318 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
12times a registrar ranked it
12years from first to last
#2488highest recorded position

England and Wales · Girls

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2013–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2013	#5742
2014	#5691
2015	#5730
2016	#4763
2017	#5765
2018	#3518
2019	#4001
2020	#5493
2021	#4634
2022	#2488
2023	#3218
2024	#3318

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 2013 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 2013–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2013
First recorded at #5742 among girls in England and Wales in 2013 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2013–2024
Highest recorded position: #2488 among girls in England and Wales, in 2022 (recorded 2013–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3318 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2013 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #2488 in England and Wales in 2022.

Elayah's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#3318	7	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#3218	7	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2488	10	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#4634	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#5493	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4001	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3518	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#5765	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#5730	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#5691	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#5742	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 2013 and 2024, ranked in 12 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #2,488, first reached in 2022.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 10 births, registered in England and Wales in 2022.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

2decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 2 decades →
12 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years10 to 19 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#3,318position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
10births registered in its largest year, 2022Under 25 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Elara · #418, 23y
Elaya · #837, 10y
Elayna · #314, 23y
Elba · #2411, 11y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Abuzar · #2488, 12y
Aiko · #2488, 15y
Amore · #2488, 17y
Calix · #2488, 10y

Also first recorded in the 2010s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2010 and 2019.

Ilie · #2488, 10y
Joury · #2488, 13y
Nikan · #2488, 11y
Avrumi · #2493, 10y

Elayah and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Elayah without appearing here.

Elayah moved ahead of

Cheryl Compare
In 2021 they stood at #5493 and #5493 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #2488 and #5669.
Donna Compare
In 2021 they stood at #4634 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #2488 and #5669.
Hayden Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3218 and #2346 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3318 and #5891.
Kristine Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5493 and #5493 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3318 and #5891.

Moved the opposite way to Elayah

Abigail Compare
Between 2013 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Elayah went from #5742 to #3318 while Abigail went from #46 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2013 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Elayah went from #5742 to #3318 while Aimee went from #189 to #1603.
Alex Compare
Between 2013 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Elayah went from #5742 to #3318 while Alex went from #882 to #2253.
Alexandra Compare
Between 2013 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Elayah went from #5742 to #3318 while Alexandra went from #102 to #215.

Moved the same way as Elayah

Ada Compare
Between 2013 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Elayah went from #5742 to #3318 and Ada from #280 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2013 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Elayah went from #5742 to #3318 and Alma from #684 to #234.
Aria Compare
Between 2013 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Elayah went from #5742 to #3318 and Aria from #214 to #35.
Astrid Compare
Between 2013 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Elayah went from #5742 to #3318 and Astrid from #626 to #263.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2013 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #2488 in England and Wales in 2022. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Elayah

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Elayah and the names beside it

Elayah moved ahead of

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