Elija is a first name for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Elija is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Elija. In the SmartGenius ranking, Elija is #3,312 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Elija.
Is the name Elija a dinosaur? We would say: It's classic! Parents chose this name most often in 1889 – at that time, it landed at position 811 with 5 newborn boys receiving this special first name. This was the last peak in a world without airplanes, computers, rock music, or even television. Because Elija is both classic and fancy at the same time, people didn't always think to give their child this unusual name. So, if your name is Elija, feel classic and not old-fashioned, because after all, your name is what makes you stand out these days!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Elija was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Welcome, Elija, to 2022. Even if your highest rank is long ago, 20 parents welcomed a new Elija to earth that year. That makes Elija ranking on position 4,181 among newborn boys in the SmartGenius statistics. If you know someone named Elija who was born in 2022, you know someone truly special.
The first name Elija is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 119 Americans in total bear this name. And these 119 men are located in only four states: California, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Elija and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Elija in relation to it’s male population is California. And yet even there, only one in 226,829 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Elija present.
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 Elija 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 Elija 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 Elija, you can simply say:
Elephant
Lion
Igloo
Joker
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Elija
Elija
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
E
L
I
J
A
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.
E
L
I
J
A
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. Elija sounds like this:
