Given name
Eleasar
“God will help”
Eleasar is a variant of Eleazar. One Hebrew interpretation is “God will help.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Eleasar is a variant of Eleazar. One Hebrew interpretation is “God will help.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1951. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Eleasar is a variant of Eleazar. The history of Eleazar gives this family its wider story. Eleazar appears in biblical tradition, giving it a longstanding religious and cultural context.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Eleasar through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 32
- 32 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1963
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2012. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 1963. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 181 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Eleasar’s family of names
Eleasar has a related form in Eleazar. In Finnish usage, Eleasar has a conventional equivalent in the English form Eleazar. In German usage, Eleasar has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Елеазар.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Eleasar
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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