Elijah Forename
Approximately 256,958 people bear this name
Elijah Forename Definition:
A male name. Hebrew ‘The Lord is Jah’, the same name (differently vocalized) as Elihu (q.v.). It was one of the most popular Old Testament names in the Middle Ages, the various vernacular forms of it being derived from the Greek form Ελίας.
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| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 100% | 75,956 | 1:2,338 | 437 |
| Kenya | 100% | 59,511 | 1:778 | 152 |
| United States | 100% | 22,840 | 1:15,873 | 1,425 |
| Zambia | - | 14,774 | 1:1,073 | 237 |
| Ghana | 99% | 14,552 | 1:1,854 | 322 |
| Zimbabwe | 99% | 9,800 | 1:1,574 | 288 |
| Liberia | 100% | 9,103 | 1:485 | 99 |
| South Africa | 100% | 8,727 | 1:6,249 | 1,180 |
| Malawi | 100% | 7,572 | 1:2,260 | 429 |
| Sudan | 100% | 6,346 | 1:5,958 | 914 |
| Uganda | 99% | 6,100 | 1:6,714 | 773 |
| South Sudan | 100% | 5,797 | 1:1,993 | 349 |
| Papua New Guinea | 98% | 2,749 | 1:2,966 | 333 |
| Rwanda | - | 1,934 | 1:5,880 | 1,009 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 1,652 | 1:13,081 | 1,380 |
| Philippines | 74% | 1,605 | 1:66,050 | 4,304 |
| Jamaica | - | 941 | 1:3,064 | 604 |
| Botswana | 100% | 844 | 1:2,588 | 455 |
| England | 98% | 773 | 1:71,931 | 3,006 |
| Canada | 100% | 552 | 1:60,024 | 3,728 |
| Swaziland | - | 436 | 1:2,982 | 627 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 422 | 1:125,091 | 6,374 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 398 | 1:1,460 | 275 |
| Poland | - | 377 | 1:100,868 | 2,190 |
| Australia | - | 269 | 1:50,772 | 2,391 |
| Egypt | 100% | 239 | 1:384,523 | 11,247 |
| Thailand | 96% | 213 | 1:328,947 | 17,959 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 211 | 1:6,452 | 1,066 |
| India | 91% | 207 | 1:5,868,976 | 212,436 |
| Gabon | 100% | 200 | 1:9,417 | 1,573 |
| Saint Lucia | 99% | 120 | 1:1,482 | 271 |
| Malaysia | 86% | 119 | 1:255,882 | 13,693 |
| Fiji | - | 115 | 1:7,760 | 1,571 |
| DR Congo | 100% | 110 | 1:671,160 | 22,021 |
| Bahamas | - | 82 | 1:4,870 | 778 |
| Curaçao | 100% | 78 | 1:1,997 | 462 |
| South Korea | 55% | 76 | 1:72,953 | 4,214 |
| China | - | 70 | 1:19,515,083 | 60,332 |
| New Zealand | - | 67 | 1:67,702 | 3,311 |
| Brazil | 100% | 57 | 1:3,758,529 | 64,556 |
| Singapore | 100% | 57 | 1:110,299 | 7,549 |
| Russia | 100% | 49 | 1:2,943,545 | 17,266 |
| Guyana | 100% | 40 | 1:19,082 | 2,394 |
| Indonesia | - | 40 | 1:6,449,092 | 236,079 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 39 | 1:183,384 | 11,968 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 38 | 1:2,616 | 555 |
| Germany | 100% | 38 | 1:2,544,155 | 13,368 |
| Namibia | - | 36 | 1:66,783 | 3,675 |
| Benin | 100% | 35 | 1:302,167 | 12,231 |
| Afghanistan | 100% | 30 | 1:1,087,451 | 12,872 |
| Belize | 100% | 29 | 1:12,218 | 1,691 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 29 | 1:582,830 | 13,221 |
| Kuwait | - | 28 | 1:135,188 | 8,745 |
| Qatar | 67% | 26 | 1:91,139 | 11,761 |
| France | 90% | 24 | 1:2,769,598 | 14,180 |
| Sweden | 100% | 23 | 1:428,605 | 11,536 |
| Scotland | 100% | 22 | 1:243,198 | 4,001 |
| Grenada | 100% | 20 | 1:5,406 | 882 |
| Israel | 71% | 18 | 1:466,829 | 9,497 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 16 | 1:513,344 | 8,079 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 15 | 1:136,000 | 10,756 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 91% | 15 | 1:7,439 | 1,138 |
| Norway | 100% | 12 | 1:427,694 | 8,125 |
| Ireland | 100% | 11 | 1:422,138 | 6,488 |
| Belgium | 100% | 11 | 1:1,044,549 | 12,446 |
| Czechia | 100% | 11 | 1:968,742 | 3,396 |
| Ecuador | - | 11 | 1:1,611,538 | 10,117 |
| Hong Kong | - | 11 | 1:704,793 | 4,980 |
| Japan | - | 11 | 1:11,635,096 | 36,893 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 10 | 1:2,307,593 | 50,152 |
| Mexico | 100% | 10 | 1:12,414,443 | 34,902 |
| Austria | 100% | 9 | 1:946,022 | 6,960 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 9 | 1:3,423,618 | 14,711 |
| Wales | 100% | 9 | 1:343,812 | 5,087 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 8 | 1:2,971,210 | 60,968 |
| Hungary | 100% | 7 | 1:1,398,824 | 3,444 |
| American Samoa | - | 6 | 1:9,308 | 1,982 |
| Romania | - | 6 | 1:3,341,996 | 26,471 |
| Ukraine | - | 6 | 1:7,583,318 | 11,559 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 6 | 1:18,291 | 1,938 |
| Finland | 100% | 5 | 1:1,096,637 | 9,775 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | - | 5 | 1:10,972 | 1,354 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 5 | 1:6,040,379 | 77,223 |
| Northern Ireland | - | 4 | 1:460,786 | 2,461 |
| Angola | - | 4 | 1:6,741,652 | 4,704 |
| Belarus | 100% | 4 | 1:2,370,596 | 9,928 |
| Burundi | - | 4 | 1:2,476,640 | 1,357 |
| Denmark | - | 4 | 1:1,412,374 | 15,217 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 4 | 1:2,607,818 | 19,206 |
| Ethiopia | 100% | 4 | 1:24,390,033 | 19,296 |
| Gambia | - | 4 | 1:481,649 | 818 |
| Greece | - | 4 | 1:2,733,637 | 12,935 |
| Italy | 100% | 4 | 1:15,265,522 | 38,916 |
| Mozambique | - | 4 | 1:6,810,839 | 3,114 |
| Samoa | - | 4 | 1:48,798 | 712 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 4 | 1:1,772,166 | 913 |
| Suriname | - | 4 | 1:138,203 | 2,927 |
| Tunisia | - | 4 | 1:169,226 | 7,289 |
| Monaco | - | 3 | 1:12,822 | 1,634 |
| Senegal | - | 3 | 1:4,860,452 | 20,187 |
| Bolivia | - | 2 | 1:5,300,702 | 6,605 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 2 | 1:9,189,734 | 69,235 |
| Cambodia | - | 2 | 1:8,136,665 | 51,498 |
| El Salvador | - | 2 | 1:3,170,893 | 11,665 |
| Georgia | 100% | 2 | 1:1,869,233 | 20,119 |
| Kazakhstan | 100% | 2 | 1:8,873,422 | 35,327 |
| Lebanon | 100% | 2 | 1:2,813,786 | 13,895 |
| Montserrat | - | 2 | 1:2,438 | 412 |
| Panama | - | 2 | 1:1,953,278 | 31,007 |
| Albania | 100% | 1 | 1:3,046,570 | 49,159 |
| Bangladesh | - | 1 | 1:159,461,366 | 36,167 |
| Barbados | - | 1 | 1:289,789 | 3,893 |
| Brunei | - | 1 | 1:419,570 | 3,266 |
| Bulgaria | - | 1 | 1:6,990,390 | 27,036 |
| Cape Verde | - | 1 | 1:529,151 | 6,361 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 1 | 1:61,299 | 2,487 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 1 | 1:4,767,948 | 27,206 |
| Greenland | - | 1 | 1:56,371 | 1,395 |
| Guinea | - | 1 | 1:11,858,647 | 7,978 |
| Iceland | - | 1 | 1:366,017 | 7,938 |
| Iran | - | 1 | 1:78,496,868 | 65,150 |
| Jordan | - | 1 | 1:8,826,774 | 11,126 |
| Macau | - | 1 | 1:608,209 | 2,350 |
| North Macedonia | - | 1 | 1:2,090,757 | 15,787 |
| Malta | - | 1 | 1:429,360 | 3,141 |
| Moldova | - | 1 | 1:3,561,139 | 8,690 |
| Myanmar | - | 1 | 1:51,948,273 | 3,226 |
| Nauru | 100% | 1 | 1:11,927 | 903 |
| New Caledonia | - | 1 | 1:270,164 | 3,221 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 1 | 1:54,668 | 1,803 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 1 | 1:194,357,680 | 303,535 |
| Peru | 100% | 1 | 1:31,791,454 | 110,866 |
| Portugal | - | 1 | 1:10,410,866 | 12,786 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 1 | 1:3,550,301 | 10,040 |
| Serbia | - | 1 | 1:7,145,721 | 10,629 |
| Spain | - | 1 | 1:46,529,965 | 35,592 |
| Syria | - | 1 | 1:19,306,075 | 9,560 |
| Togo | - | 1 | 1:7,239,239 | 8,047 |
| Turkey | - | 1 | 1:77,801,709 | 91,051 |
| Turkmenistan | 100% | 1 | 1:5,472,870 | 3,925 |
| Uzbekistan | - | 1 | 1:30,786,440 | 17,476 |
| Vanuatu | - | 1 | 1:261,792 | 1,604 |
| Yemen | - | 1 | 1:26,296,751 | 14,474 |
Elijah (71,764) may also be a surname.
Elijah Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A male name. Hebrew ‘The Lord is Jah’, the same name (differently vocalized) as Elihu (q.v.). It was one of the most popular Old Testament names in the Middle Ages, the various vernacular forms of it being derived from the Greek form Ελίας. The English Ellis, French Élie, and the diminutive Eliot were all common in England, as is testified by the numerous surnames formed from them (e.g. Ellis, Ellison, Ely, Eley, Eliot, Elliot, Eliott,Elliott). Ellis gradually went out of fashion, though it is found in use a late as the end of the 15th C; in the 17th C the Puritans took to using Elijah (the form in which the name appears in the Old Testament in the Authorized Version of the Bible). A well-known example of the name is Sir Elijah Impcy (1732-1809), the friend and colleague of Warren Hastings. Ellis and Eliot are nowadays often found as christian names, but they are usually surnames being so used.
Elis Curia Regis Rolls 1199-1215, Hundred Rolls 1273. Elys Hundred Rolls 1273, Elias Feudal Aids 1316. Elyas Feudal Aids 1303. Elye Hundred Rolls 1273. Elie Placita de Quo Warranto 1292. Eliot Curia Regis Rolls 1210. Elyot Hundred Rolls 1273.
‘The noblest prophet of the kingdom of Israel was called by two Hebrew words, meaning God the Lord, a sound most like... Eliyahu, the same in effect as that of the young man who reproved Job and his friends, though, in his case, the Hebrew points have led to his being called in our Bible Elihu, while we know the prophet as Elijah, the translators probably intending us to pronounce the j like an i, ‘Yonge.
The Scripture name, in Hebrew אֱלִיָּה, Eliyyáh, which Simonis translates ‘robur Domini, t. e. strength of the Lord;’ Jones, ‘God-Lord (El and Yah, for Y’hovah).’ Tregelles writes אֱלִיָּה Elijayah, and אֱלִיָּהוּ, Elijaha, ‘my God is Jehovah.’
Hebrew (masculine) - Jehovah is God.
E-ly'-jah, God the Lord, the strong Lord. A Jewish prophet, a native of the town of Tishbe, situated in the land of Gilead, beyond Jordan. See his history. 1 Kings xvii., xviii., xix.
Meaning: my God is Jehovah.
A Hebrew name, meaning: God is my lord: Yahveh is my God.
User-submitted Reference
The name Elias or Ilias comes from the Greek name Ελιάς (Elias).
- portokaliElijah is a name of Hebrew prophet, meaning 'my God is Jehovah'.
- portokaliElijah Forename Popularity
Elijah Demographics
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$37,821 USD
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Average Salary in
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$43,149 USD
Per year
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