Eliel

What Eliel means

Means “El is my lord”

From Hebrew אֱלִיאֵל ('ĕlī'ēl, “El is my lord”).

Source: Wiktionary, “Eliel” (revision 93542451), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Eliel?

US: Rising: up from #1416 in 2015. England & Wales: New in the last 10 years.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 503 boys got the name (#585 that year). First in the US records in 1975.

How common

• About 1 in 3,396 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 20,918 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in DE (1.7 per 1,000 boys), MD (0.96 per 1,000 boys), NM (0.77 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Eliel is #585 in the US and #1897 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Eliel were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

If you like Eliel

Boys

• Abner#874“father of light”^*
• Jeremias#853“Yahweh exalt”^*
• Asher#28Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #28 vs #150 in 2025
• Zev#864“wolf”^*
• Abdiel#607“servant of God”^*
• Yehuda#740Editor’s note Up from #939 in 2015 to #740 in 2025 in the US

For a sister

• Chaya#587“living”^*
• Eliana#10Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #102 in 2015, #10 in 2025. 6 letters, starting with a vowel
• Eden#70possibly “steppe, garden”^*
• Zara#212“flower”^*
• Rivka#628Same root as Rebecca, meaning “enchantingly beautiful, captivating…^*
• Naomi#47“my pleasantness”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Bible, Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Eliel’s. Rank is US 2025.