Elikai is a modern American creation that joins Eli, the Hebrew name meaning "ascended" or "my God", with the fashionable ending Kai, which means "sea" in Hawaiian. It has no history before this century but blends smoothly with names like Malachi and Ezekiel. Elikai had fewer than five births in 2000, rose from number 11077 in 2015 to number 2990 in 2021 and reaches its best rank so far in 2025 at number 2897 with 43 births.