Elias

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Elias boys named Elias

By the numbers

Total US births

129,502

Estimated living today

121,000

Median age today

9

Peak year

2025

Best rank

13th

Rank in 2025

13th

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

239 / 129,263

How old the living Eliases are

born that year still alive today

Of the 129,502 babies given the name since 1880, about 121,000 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 88,000 of them are children and 1,900 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2016 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.

Where the name comes from

Origin Hebrew

The New Testament form of Elijah, a Hebrew prophet.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Eliass

• Elias Canetti (1905–1994)Bulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer
• Elias Lönnrot (1802–1884)Finnish physician, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry
• Elias James Corey (born 1928)American chemist
• Elias Magnus Fries (1794–1878)Swedish biologist considered to be one of the founding fathers of the modern taxonomy of mushrooms
• Elias Howe (1819–1867)American inventor
• Don Elías Figueroa (born 1946)Chilean footballer
• Elias Hrawi (1926–2006)10th President of Lebanon
• Elias Koteas (born 1961)Canadian actor

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

Where Elias is most common

• CA24,109
• TX18,277
• NY8,276
• FL6,596
• IL4,395
• AZ4,051
• PA3,746
• NC3,181
• WA2,987
• NJ2,984

Relative to how many babies each state records, Elias is most concentrated in New Mexico (2.9×), Alaska (2.8×), Nevada (2.7×), Arizona (2.6×).

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

Names of 2025

The most popular boys’ names the year Elias peaked:

• Liam
• Noah
• Oliver
• Theodore
• Henry
• James

All the names of 2025

Elias 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.

Elias: 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, Elias is most concentrated in Uri, where 0.87% of children were given it – 71 of them.

Elias: rank by region

In 2025, Elias was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.

In 2023, Elias was among the 10 most common names in 2 regions of Italy.

In 2025, Elias was given 2 times or more in 6 regions of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Elias appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (17th), Province of Flemish Brabant (26th), Brussels-Capital Region (28th), Province of West Flanders (30th), Province of Limburg (43rd), Province of East Flanders (44th), Province of Luxembourg (46th), Province of Hainaut (57th) and Province of Liège (63rd).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – 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.

Elias by city

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

Elias 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, the Netherlands on 1 January 2018 – 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 Elias lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 16,667 men called Elias were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

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

Elias against another name

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

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

Compare Elias with a name of your own