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The ELIJAH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 855 26761 0 3
United States (1880 census) 164 22223 0 3
Change since 1880 +691 -4538 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 37 32050 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for ELIJAH by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 90 26507 0.000 3
Texas 83 18685 0.000 4
Indiana 68 10877 0.001 11
Florida 58 28728 0.000 4
New York 57 33250 0.000 3
Top States for ELIJAH by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 31 3850 0.005 48
Indiana 68 10877 0.001 11
Alabama 31 10508 0.001 7
Iowa 20 21074 0.001 7
South Dakota 5 19777 0.001 7

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called ELIJAH live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called ELIJAH represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called ELIJAH in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a ELIJAH by picking someone at random in North Dakota than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of ELIJAH

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the ELIJAH surname.

Ethnic distribution of ELIJAH in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 458 53.57
White (Caucasian) 338 39.53
Mixed Race 25 2.92
White (Hispanic) 15 1.75
Asian/Pacific 11 1.29
Native American/Alaskan 8 0.94

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the ELIJAH surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

ELIJAH is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of ELIJAH in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of ELIJAH.

Similar names to ELIJAH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ELIJAH.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for ELIJAH

The following words are slight variants of ELIJAH that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.