Ëlia
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ëlia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Biblical Hebrew אליהו (Eliyahu).
- USUnited States1 in 18K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 3K
- ESSpain1 in 4.5K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 328 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
18,430 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Elia in US United States, ES Spain, TZ Tanzania.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Biblical Hebrew אליהו (Eliyahu).
Sources 8
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ëlia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 18,430 | 1 in 18K | 17K | Elia | 328 |
| ES Spain | — | 11,018 | 1 in 4.5K | 11K | Elia | 71 |
| BR Brazil | — | 6,980 | 1 in 30K | 8.1K | — | 4 |
| FI Finland | — | 1,834 | 1 in 3K | 2K | — | 10 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,040 | 1 in 9.8K | 1K | — | 22 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 694 | 1 in 7.3K | 694 | — | — |
| AL Albania | — | 584 | 1 in 5.3K | 584 | — | 1 |
| TZ Tanzania | #519 | — | — | — | Elia | 27 |
18,430 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ëlia mean, and where does it come from?
- From Biblical Hebrew אליהו (Eliyahu). Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,… and 6 other sources.
- Is Ëlia a male or female name?
- Ëlia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Ëlia have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 18 thousand people named Ëlia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled elia.
- Where is Ëlia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ëlia is densest in Finland — about 1 in 3.0 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ëlia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 18,430 people named Ëlia in 2020, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
- How common is Ëlia compared with other names?
- In Tanzania, Ëlia is the 519th most common given name of 37,285 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%ABliaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ëlia” — the 519th most common given name in Tanzania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.