Elvia

given name · Latin script

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

Elvia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Honduras it is the 98th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Latín Heluia, femenino de Heluius; quizá de heluus 'amarillento, rubio'.

rarermore common
  • ECEcuador1 in 814(measured from records)
  • HNHonduras≈1 in 965
  • GTGuatemala≈1 in 2.1K

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.

United States (measured from records)

21,399 people, 2020

Sources
313 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 814 (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Spanish

Latín Heluia, femenino de Heluius; quizá de heluus 'amarillento, rubio'

Sources 1

  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Where in the world(measured from records)

Elvia 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 Elvia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—21,3991 in 16K21KElvia313
EC Ecuador#17820,7761 in 81421KElvia39
CO Colombia#375≈18,000 est.≈1 in 2.8K11Elvia86
PE Peru#542≈12,000 est.≈1 in 2.6K—Elvia44
VE Venezuela#41710,4241 in 2.7K10KElvia35
HN Honduras#98≈9,600 est.≈1 in 965—Elvia26
GT Guatemala#187≈8,300 est.≈1 in 2.1K—Elvia27

21,399 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; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INEC — civil registry names; the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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)

Elvia is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name13 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Èlvia, Ëlvïä

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Élvia, Elvía

  • Italian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Peru, Ecuador

    Also written Helvia

  • Polish given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, Poland, Russia

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Элвия, Элвйя, Елвиа, Élvia

50 further groups 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Elvia 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.

  • Rossa di capelli

    as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

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)

1850190019502000Elvia Carrillo Puerto, b. 1878Elvia Allman, b. 1904Elvia Andreoli, b. 1951María Elvia Amaya Araujo, b. 1954Elvia María Pérez, b. 1954Elvia Reyes, b. 1956Elvia Hernández García, b. 1962Elvia Ardalani, b. 1963Elvia Sõber, b. 1993

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 49 sources across 28 countries.

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 Elvia mean?
Recorded meaning: Latín Heluia, femenino de Heluius; quizá de heluus 'amarillento, rubio'
Is Elvia a male or female name?
Elvia 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 Elvia have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 21 thousand people named Elvia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled elvia.
Where is Elvia most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Elvia is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 814 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Elvia?
In the United States, the national register counted 21,399 people named Elvia in 2020, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
How common is Elvia compared with other names?
In Honduras, Elvia is the 98th most common given name of 23,588 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, “Elvia” — the 98th most common given name in Honduras. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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