Elia

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Elia boys named Elia

Girls and boys called Elia

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 9,084 girls and 1,075 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 263 to 41.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 109 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births

10,159

Estimated living today

8,600

Median age today

18

Peak year

2024

Best rank

841st

Rank in 2025

970th

First recorded

1884

Girls / boys

9,084 / 1,075

How old the living Elias are

born that year still alive today

Of the 10,159 babies given the name since 1884, about 8,600 are alive — 85 in every hundred. Roughly 4,300 of them are children and 900 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Elias

• Elia Kazan (1909–2003)American director and actor
• Elia Viviani (born 1989)Italian racing cyclist
• Elia Meschak (born 1997)Congolese association football player
• Elia Abu Madi (1889–1957)Lebanese-American poet
• Elia Millosevich (1848–1919)Italian astronomer
• Elia Dalla Costa (1872–1961)Catholic cardinal
• Elia Suleiman (born 1960)Palestinian film director
• Elia Levita (1469–1549)Renaissance Hebrew grammarian, scholar and poet

People named Elia with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Elia is most common

• TX2,467
• CA1,838
• NY326
• FL253
• IL212
• AZ138
• WA120
• OH87
• PA78
• MI77

Relative to how many babies each state records, Elia is most concentrated in Texas (5.2×), California (2.9×), Arizona (1.8×), Washington (1.2×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2024

The most popular girls’ names the year Elia peaked:

• Olivia
• Emma
• Amelia
• Charlotte
• Mia
• Sophia

All the names of 2024

Elia elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Elia: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Elia is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.71% of children were given it – 445 of them.

Elia: rank by region

In 2025, Elia was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.

In 2024, Elia was among the 10 most common names in 5 regions of Italy.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Elia appears in the lists for Province of Liège (113th) and Province of Hainaut (153rd).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Elia by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Elia among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Elia lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 11,018 women called Elia were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 51 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 1 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Elizabeth
• Elijah
• Eli
• Elias
• Eliana
• Elise
• Eliza
• Elisabeth
• Elisa
• Elisha
• Elinor
• Elissa

Elia against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Elia vs Elizabeth
• Elia vs Elijah
• Elia vs Eli
• Elia vs Elias
• Elia vs Eliana
• Elia vs Elise

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