Eliel is a male first name.
The name Eliel isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Eliel ranks 934. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 1 were named Eliel. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Eliel.
Eliel is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Eliel cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #625 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2019. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Eliel, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Eliel seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Eliel was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
306 babies were named Eliel in 2022 - that's 1 in 527,536 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Eliel ranked 756 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
You may not know anyone named Eliel, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 25 states are home to men and boys named Eliel. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Eliel living in one state or another. If your name is Eliel and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Florida, which has the most people named Eliel relative to the population, you still have to ask 20,924 men and boys their names before you hear Eliel as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter E is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 3.8% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With five letters, the name Eliel is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 3.8%, E as the first letter in boys' names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average - and of all the boys' names that start with an E, Edward is the most common.
If your name is Eliel and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Eliel, you can simply say:
Elephant
Lion
Igloo
Elephant
Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Eliel
Eliel
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Eliel sounds like this:
