girls:
8.5k births since 1884
#1769 (69th percentile)
boys:
1k births since 1915
#3582 (22nd percentile)
overall:
9.5k births since 1884
#2762 (64th percentile)
The name Elia is the #2,762 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,506 recorded births since 1884. This represents the 64.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 64.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,769 (69.1% percentile) for all time with 8,495 births since 1884. For boys, it ranks #3,582 (21.8% percentile) for all time with 1,011 births since 1915.
Elia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1884 (1884 for girls and 1915 for boys). Birth data for Elia is available in 135 out of the 140 years between 1884 and 2023 (135 years for girls and 84 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Elia has been given predominantly to girls, with 89.4% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 90.6% of babies named Elia were girls.
For girls, Elia reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 31.3% percentile (ranked #643) with 171 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 176 births per million (ranked 31.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2000, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Elia is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #652 (31.2% percentile) with 176 births per million.
For boys, Elia reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 3.3% percentile (ranked #894) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 19 births per million (ranked 3.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2011, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Elia ranks #884 for boys (3.0% percentile) with 17 births per million, which is 93.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elia".
These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Elia.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Elia", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Elia.
Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Elia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 26.5% confident that Elia is pronounced as EH-lee-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ee-LEE-uh, at 24.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Elia? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Elia. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Elia, please vote using the thumbs up button.
Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like EH1 L IY0 AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker