# Eliezer (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/eliezer/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Hebrew |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ˌɛliˈɛzə(ɹ)/, 3 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 8,169 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 8,164 / 5 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 328, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Hebrew אליעזר (eliʿézer).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | 15,562 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 166 | 1,111 |
| 2012 | 192 | 1,018 |
| 2013 | 191 | 1,025 |
| 2014 | 254 | 868 |
| 2015 | 198 | 1,025 |
| 2016 | 211 | 974 |
| 2017 | 206 | 991 |
| 2018 | 194 | 1,046 |
| 2019 | 202 | 1,028 |
| 2020 | 220 | 975 |
| 2021 | 216 | 1,019 |
| 2022 | 211 | 1,046 |
| 2023 | 222 | 993 |
| 2024 | 220 | 1,014 |
| 2025 | 266 | 893 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 8 | 2,390 |
| 2012 | 10 | 2,117 |
| 2013 | 11 | 1,920 |
| 2014 | 14 | 1,630 |
| 2015 | 13 | 1,786 |
| 2016 | 19 | 1,363 |
| 2017 | 16 | 1,546 |
| 2018 | 14 | 1,683 |
| 2019 | 11 | 1,986 |
| 2020 | 16 | 1,492 |
| 2021 | 11 | 1,984 |
| 2022 | 10 | 2,165 |
| 2023 | 12 | 1,906 |
| 2024 | 10 | 2,263 |
| 2025 | 18 | 1,466 |

## People named Eliezer

- Eliezer Yudkowsky, American AI researcher and writer (born 1979)
- Eliezer Papo, Bulgarian rabbi
- Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (1934–2016)
- Louis Finkelstein, American rabbi and scholar (1895–1991)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.