Eligia
given name · Latin script
Meaning: La elegida
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/elixja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Eligia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country.
- VEVenezuela1 in 17K(measured from records)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 19K
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 16K
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.
- Venezuela (measured from records)
- Sources
- 71 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
1,696 people
Highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
La elegida
Sources 1
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Where in the world(measured from records)
Eligia 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | — | 1,696 | 1 in 17K | 1.7K | Eligia | 14 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Eligia | 9 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #688 | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Eligia | 12 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 235K | — | Eligia | 9 |
| BR Brazil | — | 456 | 1 in 464K | 481 | Eligia | 41 |
| PY Paraguay | #922 | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Eligia | 8 |
| CR Costa Rica | #481 | 253 | 1 in 20K | 253 | Eligia | 9 |
| NI Nicaragua | #708 | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Eligia | 5 |
1,696 people counted by asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996). 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: asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Eligia is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, a female given name, masculine equivalent Eligio
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Eligia Bakowskab. 1907PLPolish translator
- Ligia Stroessnerb. 1910PYnot in their usual nameFirst Lady of Paraguay (1910–2006)
- Eligia Dzielskab. 1920PLPolish Righteous Among the Nations
- Eligia M Szewczykb. 1951PLPolish microbiologist
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 28 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 1.7K | #965 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 481 | #7,602 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 459 | #15,115 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 456 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 452 | #14,259 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 429 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 376 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 259 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 253 | #1,283 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 154 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 117 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 105 | — |
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
- What does the name Eligia mean, and where does it come from?
- La elegida Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado.
- How do you pronounce Eligia?
- A machine transcription gives /elixja/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Eligia a male or female name?
- Eligia 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 Eligia have the most bearers?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Eligia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled eligia.
- How common is the name Eligia?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted 1,696 people named Eligia, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
- How common is Eligia compared with other names?
- In Costa Rica, Eligia is the 481st most common given name of 15,284 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Eligia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/eligiaThe 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, “Eligia” — the 481st most common given name in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.