Elias
My God is Yahweh · Hebrew origin
What does Elias mean?
Elias is a male name of Hebrew origin, meaning “My God is Yahweh”.
How popular is Elias?
In England & Wales, Elias ranked #79 among boys' names in 2024, with 687 babies given the name — up from #192 in 2014. That is its best showing in the England & Wales series, which begins in 1996.
In the United States, Elias was the #54 boys' name in the 2020 data — its best showing in the US series, which samples one year per decade from 1880.
| Year | E&W rank | Births |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | #438 | 46 |
| 2000 | #423 | 51 |
| 2005 | #365 | 86 |
| 2010 | #275 | 166 |
| 2015 | #189 | 304 |
| 2020 | #113 | 510 |
| 2024 | #79 | 687 |
Who are famous people named Elias?
- Walt Disney · American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
- Elias Canetti · Bulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer (1905–1994)
- Nizami Ganjavi · Persian poet
What names go well with Elias?
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Hebrew, heartfelt and quietly global, the name that means the heavens but shortens to a cuddle.
Elias: a little prayer with a lift in it — Elias as our Name of the Day.
Jackson: the surname that ran off to be a first name — Elias gets a mention.
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