Eliá

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Eliá is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Biblical Hebrew אליהו (Eliyahu).

  • MXMexico≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
  • HNHonduras≈1 in 1.9K
  • ITItaly≈1 in 2.1Kfew records

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Mexico (inferred from the name graph)

≈81,000 people, est.

Record sources
287 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Tanzania, est.

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 MX Mexico, US United States, ES Spain and 4 more.

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).

Cited for this meaning 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 29 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Eliá 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.

Where Eliá is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MX Mexico#236≈81,000 est.≈1 in 1.6K658Elia158
TZ Tanzania—≈57,000 est.≈1 in 1.2K—Elia20
IT Italy—≈28,000 est.≈1 in 2.1K1.5KElia85
US United States—18,4301 in 18K17KElia287
ES Spain#52111,0181 in 4.5K11KElia138
HN Honduras#186≈5,600 est.≈1 in 1.9K—Elia23
NI Nicaragua#185≈3,200 est.≈1 in 2.2K—Elia14

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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Eliá is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada

    Languages: English, Dutch

    Also written Elia, Èlia, Élia, Elía, Êlia

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Eliá under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Eliá 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 Eliá a male or female name?
Eliá 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 Eliá have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 81 thousand people named Eliá in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled elia.
How common is the name Eliá?
In the United States, the national register counted 18,430 people named Eliá in 2020, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
How common is Eliá compared with other names?
In Mexico, Eliá is the 236th most common given name of 193,485 given names recorded there.

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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, “Eliá” — the 236th most common given name in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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