Elias

What Elias means

Form of Elijah, meaning “Yahweh is my god”

form of Elijah || From Hebrew אליהו (Eliyahu, literally “Yahweh is my god”).

Source: Wiktionary, “Elias” (revision 94539077) and “Elijah” (revision 92065602), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Elias?

US: Rising: up from #100 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #189 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 8,837 boys got the name (#13 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 193 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 368 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 982 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in AK (14.52 per 1,000 boys), WY (11.93 per 1,000 boys), NM (10.15 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Elias is #13 in the US and #69 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9% of US babies named Elias were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Alias108 US · 7 E&W
• Ilias60 US · 14 E&W
• Ellias23 US · 14 E&W
• Eliaz36 US
• Ahlias23 US
• Elios22 US
• Aelius12 US
• Allias11 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Elias

Boys

• Ezekiel#61“God strengthens”^*
• Ezra#20Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #93 in 2015, #20 in 2025. Short and simple: 4 letters
• Zev#864“wolf”^*
• Adriel#84“flock of God”^*
• Azariah#472“Yah Has Helped”^*
• Moshe#435possibly “to give birth to”^*

For a sister

• Rivka#628Same root as Rebecca, meaning “enchantingly beautiful, captivating…^*
• Zara#212“flower”^*
• Ezra#833Editor’s note Up from #1,199 in 2015 to #833 in 2025 in the US
• Naomi#47“my pleasantness”^*
• Eliana#10Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #102 in 2015, #10 in 2025. 6 letters, starting with a vowel
• Delilah#51Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #115 in 2015, #51 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Elias’s. Rank is US 2025.