Eliezer

What Eliezer means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Eliezer yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Up from #1,023 in 2015 to #893 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Eliezer?

US: Rising: up from #1023 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #1786 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 266 boys got the name (#893 that year). First in the US records in 1947.

How common

• About 1 in 6,421 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 15,108 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 NJ (1.36 per 1,000 boys), NY (0.9 per 1,000 boys), CT (0.38 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Eliezer is #893 in the US and #1466 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 98.2% of US babies named Eliezer were boys.

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

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Eliazar41 US · 3 E&W
• Eliazer10 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Eliezer

Boys

• Josias#950Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1975, with 5 babies
• Moshe#435possibly “to give birth to”^*
• Jeremias#853“Yahweh exalt”^*
• Asher#28Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #28 vs #150 in 2025
• Abdiel#607“servant of God”^*
• Judah#178Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #178 vs #404 in 2025

For a sister

• Naomi#47“my pleasantness”^*
• Eden#70possibly “steppe, garden”^*
• Eliana#10Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #102 in 2015, #10 in 2025. 6 letters, starting with a vowel
• Rivka#628Same root as Rebecca, meaning “enchantingly beautiful, captivating…^*
• Zara#212“flower”^*
• Lilah#179Editor’s note Up from #314 in 2015 to #179 in 2025 in the US

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 Eliezer’s. Rank is US 2025.