Elias
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: Elijah (Old Testament prophet)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Elias is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 50th most common given name.
- SESweden1 in 282(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 1.1K
- USUnited States1 in 3.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Elias itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #114 (measured from records)
- 9 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 455 (measured from records)
- 1 in 188 (inferred from the name graph)
≈760,000 named Илья, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Илья in RU Russia, BY Belarus, CN China, Ilyas in TR Türkiye and Ilia in GE Georgia.
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)
Name of the prophet Israel, existing in the 18th and 19th centuries in Baden, mainly Müllheim area.
Sources 1
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Elias is read(measured from records)
Elias is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish46%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Elias in Spanish.
- Portuguese24%
Elijah (Old Testament prophet)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English12%
A different form of Ellis
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Elias 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #50 | ≈760,000 est. | ≈1 in 186 | #26 | Илья | 252 |
| BR Brazil | #99 | 190,432 | 1 in 1.1K | 191K | Elias | 220 |
| US United States | #672 | 88,033 | 1 in 3.8K | 88K | Elias | 455 |
| CN China | — | ≈69,000 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Илья | 16 |
| TR Türkiye | #141 | ≈66,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Ilyas | 110 |
| SE Sweden | #386 | 36,200 | 1 in 282 | 36K | Elias | 84 |
| BY Belarus | #40 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 283 | 3 | Илья | 72 |
| FI Finland | — | 29,626 | 1 in 188 | 37K | Elias | 42 |
| GE Georgia | #76 | 19,622as ილია | 1 in 204 | 20K | Ilia | 72 |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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); Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API). 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)
Elias is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Name of the prophet Israel, existing in the 18th and 19th centuries in Baden, mainly Müllheim area.
as a nameThe Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
In Hebrew, Hebrew 'Yahweh is my God'; biblical prophet
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Biblical name, from the Greek form (used in the New Testament) of the name of the prophet pElijah. See also Ellis.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Italian, forma arcaica e latina de Elia
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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)
- Nizamib. 1141AZnot in their usual namePersian poet
- Elias Lönnrotb. 1802FIFinnish physician, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry (1802-1884)
- Walt Disneyb. 1901USnot in their usual nameAmerican animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
- Elias Canettib. 1905BGBulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer (1905–1994)
- Elia Kazanb. 1909USnot in their usual nameAmerican director and actor (1909–2003)
- Elias Menachem Steinb. 1931USAmerican mathematician (1931-2018)
- Michel Temerb. 1940BRnot in their usual name24th Vice-President of Brazil from 2011 to 2016 and 37th President of Brazil from 2016 to 2019
- Martin Seligmanb. 1942USnot in their usual nameAmerican psychologist and writer
- Elias Koteasb. 1961CACanadian actor
- Mattéo Guendouzib. 1999FRnot in their usual nameFrench footballer (born 1999)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 158 sources across 76 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 191K | #274 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 190K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 189K | #173 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 88K | #601 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 37K | #55 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 36K | #117 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 30K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 22K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 11K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 8.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.1K | #173 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 384 | #601 |
Reference works 10
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Where does the name Elias come from?
- Name of the prophet Israel, existing in the 18th and 19th centuries in Baden, mainly Müllheim area. Recorded by The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History.
- In which country does Elias have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 764 thousand people named Илья in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Elias most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Elias is densest in Finland — about 1 in 188 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- Is Elias a male or female name?
- Elias is a male 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 Elias?
- In the etymology graph, Ilyas, Elijah and Elia are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Elias mean?
- In Portuguese, Elijah (Old Testament prophet)
- How common is the name Elias?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 190,432 people named Elias in 2022, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Elias compared with other names?
- In Russia, Elias is the 50th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/eliasThe 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, “Elias” — the 50th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.