Elea
given name · Latin script
Meaning: ancient town, Italy
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ələa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Elea is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 3.3K
- NONorway1 in 11K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 209 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
ancient town, Italy
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Elea, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Elea 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 8.3K | Elea | 209 |
| FI Finland | 1,686 | 1 in 3.3K | 1.8K | — | 2 |
| NO Norway | 482 | 1 in 11K | 1.7K | — | — |
| US United States | 398 | 1 in 836K | 376 | Elea | 19 |
| PH Philippines | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 387K | — | Elea | 6 |
| BE Belgium | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 77K | 29 | Elea | 16 |
| AL Albania | 77 | 1 in 40K | 77 | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Elea is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, weibl. Vom., Erweiterung von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Swahili, to be clear, to be comprehensible
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, absolutive singular of ele
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Velia
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, ( Dv, ele A ). Discusión, disputa. "(Lard), combat" Dv . "(G?), combate (Lard)" A (tomado seguramente de Dv) . "(G?), contienda, disputa" Ib. (citando Ur Dan ( elean ); v. infra ) . v. eleta. Juduakin ere elea latzak izaten zituen . Lard 516. Etxekoak beren elean utzita, Manuel Azkarragaruntz atera zan . Ag G 292.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Elea Giménez Toledob. 19731973-
- Éléa Gobbé-Mévellecb. 1985FRFrench illustrator, animator and film director
- Elea Geisslerb. 1988DEGerman actress
- Elea Brandtb. 1989DEGerman writer and psychologist
- Elea Mariama Diarrab. 1990FRFrench athletics competitor
- Eléa de Gansováb. 1993NLDutch-Czech judoka
- Eléa Schneebergerb. 1998CHSwiss cyclist
- Elea Hagmannb. 2004CHSwiss association football player
- Elea Golbergb. 2005DEGerman association football player
- Elea GrossFRFrench association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 60 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 8.3K | #1,605 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 1.8K | #585 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 1.7K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 1.7K | #1,222 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 482 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 376 | #24,274 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 77 | #3,313 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 2025 | 30 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 27 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25 | #14,688 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 22 | #24,274 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2024 | 9 | #867 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Elea?
- A machine transcription gives /ələa/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Elea have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.3 thousand people named Elea in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled elea.
- Where is Elea most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Elea is densest in Finland — about 1 in 3.3 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- What does the name Elea mean, and where does it come from?
- ancient town, Italy Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- Is Elea a male or female name?
- Elea 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.
- What are other forms of the name Elea?
- In the etymology graph, Ellen, Nora and Noor are forms of the same name in other languages; Nelly and Nellie are recorded short or pet forms; it is recorded as a short form of Eleanor and Elnora.
- How common is the name Elea?
- In Finland, the national register counted 1,686 people named Elea, about 1 in 3.3 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Elea?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/eleaThe 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, “Elea”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.