How Many People Are Named Eliezer?

7,878

people named Eliezer are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 43,384 people in the US has this name

Based on 8,169 babies named Eliezer in Social Security records from 1947 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#2,851

πŸ’ŽπŸ’Ž Very Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#1,108

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Peak Year

2025

271 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

πŸ“– Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Biblical, Hebrew, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Pronunciation: el-ie-EE-zΙ™r (English)
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

From Hebrew ΧΦ±ΧœΦ΄Χ™Χ’ΦΆΧ–ΦΆΧ¨ ('Eli'ezer) meaning "my God is help". In the Old Testament this is the name of both a servant of Abraham and one of the sons of Moses (see Exodus 18:4 for an explanation of the significance of the name).

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

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⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
0.1%
Male
99.9%

Almost all of the babies given the name Eliezer (99.9%) were boys.

πŸ‘₯ Age Distribution

The average person named Eliezer alive today is about 22 years old, and 70% are under 30. Half of them were between 9 and 33 in 2025.

Under 30 5,553
70.5%
30 to 59 2,094
26.6%
60 and over 230
2.9%

πŸ“ˆ Popularity Over Time

Eliezer first appears in the records in 1947, and 2025 was its biggest year so far, with 271 babies.

Babies given the name each year, 1947 to 2025

πŸ† Rank History

Eliezer has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #828, in 1982. In 2025 it ranked #893.

Boys
Rank in 2025#893
Best rank#828 (1982)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#1,016 in the 2010s

πŸ“ State-Wise Distribution

People named Eliezer alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Eliezer were born in New York than in any other state: about 3,030 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Eliezer was given 7.5 times as often in New York, 6.7 times in New Jersey and 2 times in Massachusetts.

New York 3,030
New Jersey 1,147
California 499
Florida 398
Texas 383
Massachusetts 252
Pennsylvania 193
Illinois 116
Maryland 106
Connecticut 55
Georgia 23
Ohio 18
North Carolina 16
Virginia 15
Wisconsin 12
Indiana 6

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