# Elias (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/elias/  
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 |
| Origin | Hebrew |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ɪˈlaɪ̯.əs/, 3 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 129,502 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 129,263 / 239 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 7,787, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

The New Testament form of Elijah, a Hebrew prophet, from Ancient Greek Ἠλίας (Ēlías).

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 5 | 18,457 |
| 2008 | 7 | 14,280 |
| 2010 | 9 | 11,542 |
| 2012 | 6 | 15,514 |
| 2014 | 5 | 17,309 |
| 2015 | 10 | 10,347 |
| 2016 | 6 | 14,865 |
| 2018 | 9 | 10,810 |
| 2019 | 7 | 12,835 |
| 2020 | 7 | 12,517 |
| 2021 | 11 | 9,146 |
| 2022 | 13 | 8,165 |
| 2023 | 7 | 12,512 |
| 2024 | 7 | 12,536 |
| 2025 | 8 | 11,211 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 2,993 | 139 |
| 2012 | 3,229 | 115 |
| 2013 | 3,498 | 113 |
| 2014 | 3,784 | 103 |
| 2015 | 4,101 | 100 |
| 2016 | 4,486 | 93 |
| 2017 | 4,931 | 78 |
| 2018 | 5,351 | 67 |
| 2019 | 5,722 | 60 |
| 2020 | 5,993 | 54 |
| 2021 | 6,355 | 48 |
| 2022 | 6,730 | 43 |
| 2023 | 7,006 | 36 |
| 2024 | 7,684 | 25 |
| 2025 | 8,837 | 13 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 195 | 246 |
| 2012 | 198 | 247 |
| 2013 | 226 | 230 |
| 2014 | 294 | 192 |
| 2015 | 304 | 189 |
| 2016 | 342 | 168 |
| 2017 | 454 | 129 |
| 2018 | 471 | 123 |
| 2019 | 491 | 117 |
| 2020 | 510 | 113 |
| 2021 | 547 | 109 |
| 2022 | 572 | 96 |
| 2023 | 561 | 96 |
| 2024 | 687 | 79 |
| 2025 | 738 | 69 |

## People named Elias

- Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non
- Elias Lönnrot, Finnish physician, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry (1802–1884
- Elias James Corey, American chemist
- Elias Howe, American inventor (1819–1867)
- Elías Figueroa, Chilean footballer
- Elias Hrawi, 10th President of Lebanon (1926-2006)
- Elias Koteas, Canadian actor
- Elias Ashmole, English antiquarian, politician, officer of arms, astrologer and alchemist (1617-1692)
- Elias M. Stein, American mathematician (1931-2018)
- Elias, Brazilian association football player
- Elias Khoury, Contemporary Lebanese novelist, critic publisher (1948–2024)
- Elias Kachunga, German-Congolese association football player who played for both the German and DR Congo t

## 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.