# Elia (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/elia/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 10,159 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,075 / 9,084 (89% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 868, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 181 | 1,303 |
| 2012 | 138 | 1,577 |
| 2013 | 154 | 1,451 |
| 2014 | 177 | 1,334 |
| 2015 | 200 | 1,234 |
| 2016 | 195 | 1,252 |
| 2017 | 233 | 1,089 |
| 2018 | 216 | 1,133 |
| 2019 | 235 | 1,073 |
| 2020 | 222 | 1,101 |
| 2021 | 307 | 885 |
| 2022 | 294 | 919 |
| 2023 | 308 | 873 |
| 2024 | 321 | 841 |
| 2025 | 263 | 970 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 17 | 5,267 |
| 2012 | 16 | 5,550 |
| 2013 | 16 | 5,461 |
| 2014 | 23 | 4,299 |
| 2015 | 18 | 5,118 |
| 2016 | 20 | 4,832 |
| 2017 | 23 | 4,363 |
| 2018 | 24 | 4,265 |
| 2019 | 19 | 5,013 |
| 2020 | 28 | 3,749 |
| 2021 | 28 | 3,842 |
| 2022 | 35 | 3,356 |
| 2023 | 32 | 3,585 |
| 2024 | 22 | 4,600 |
| 2025 | 41 | 3,008 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 14 | 1,903 |
| 2012 | 22 | 1,428 |
| 2013 | 32 | 1,098 |
| 2014 | 34 | 1,040 |
| 2015 | 42 | 871 |
| 2016 | 45 | 837 |
| 2017 | 45 | 855 |
| 2018 | 50 | 767 |
| 2019 | 45 | 823 |
| 2020 | 33 | 1,013 |
| 2021 | 40 | 884 |
| 2022 | 41 | 857 |
| 2023 | 51 | 706 |
| 2024 | 51 | 736 |
| 2025 | 39 | 894 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 4 | 3,744 |
| 2010 | 9 | 2,199 |
| 2013 | 3 | 4,685 |
| 2014 | 9 | 2,248 |
| 2015 | 4 | 3,908 |
| 2016 | 3 | 4,810 |
| 2017 | 8 | 2,512 |
| 2018 | 11 | 1,991 |
| 2019 | 12 | 1,869 |
| 2020 | 8 | 2,404 |
| 2021 | 6 | 3,017 |
| 2022 | 13 | 1,781 |
| 2023 | 10 | 2,160 |
| 2024 | 11 | 2,088 |
| 2025 | 18 | 1,466 |

## People named Elia

- Elia Meschak, Congolese association football player
- Elia Dalla Costa, Catholic cardinal (1872–1961)
- Princess Elia Zaharia, Albanian actress and singer, ex-wife of Prince Leka Zogu (1983- )
- Elia Soriano, German footballer
- Elia Cmíral, Czech composer (born 1950)
- Elia W. Peattie, American author and literary critic (1862–1935)
- Elia Kahvedjian, Armenian photographer
- Zenonis, Byzantine Empress

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.