Eligh
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 35 babies a year in the US.
Eligh by the numbers
In 2025, 3 babies in England and Wales were named Eligh. In the US, 35 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 61 babies in 2014, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Eligh
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Eligh. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Eliahmy god is yahweh; a form of Elijah70 in the US (2017)
- Elihmy God is Yahweh; form of Eli22 in the US (2017)
- Elijahmy God is Yahweh13,294 in the US (2017)
- Eliasthe Lord is my God4,894 in the US (2017)
- Eliansun; diminutive of Elias or form of Helios486 in the US (2017)
- Elishagod is my salvation417 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Eligh
Names that are said the same way as Eligh, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
Names about as common as Eligh
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