Elijha is a male first name.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Elijha in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Elijha in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Elijha by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Elijha ranks at #5,679. That means there are 5,678 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Elijha.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Elijha. Boys named Elijha have made themselves scarce. But some parents have recently gotten a taste for it: At No. 2,449 Elijha ranked higher than ever in 2007. By comparison, there have been 105 years in which the first name Elijha has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2017. In general, parents name their sons Elijha only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Elijha was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Elijha continues to be a precious jewel: 10 newborns were named Elijha that year, ranking #6,627 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Elijha, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
The first name Elijha is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 54 Americans in total bear this name. And these 54 men are located in only four states: California, Florida, New York 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 Elijha 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 Elijha in relation to it’s male population is California. And yet even there, only one in 604,877 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Elijha 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 six letters, the name Elijha is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. 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 Elijha 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 Elijha, you can simply say:
Elephant
Lion
Igloo
Joker
Hat
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Elijha
Elijha
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
E
L
I
J
H
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
H
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. Elijha sounds like this:
