girls:
224 births since 1930
#5492 (4th percentile)
boys:
112.7k births since 1880
#280 (94th percentile)
overall:
112.9k births since 1880
#623 (92nd percentile)
The name Elias is the #623 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 112,888 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 92.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 92.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #280 (93.9% percentile) for all time with 112,664 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,492 (3.9% percentile) for all time with 224 births since 1930.
Elias has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1930 for girls).
The name Elias has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Elias reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 96.4% percentile (ranked #34) with 3,812 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 3,812 births per million (ranked 96.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1984, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Elias is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #34 (96.4% percentile) with 3,812 births per million.
For girls, Elias reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #950) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). Despite a peak around 2016, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for girls. Currently, Elias ranks #945 for girls (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 55.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elias".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Elias. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 44.6% confident that Elias is pronounced as ih-LAI-uhs, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ee-LAI-uhs, at 17.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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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 IH0 L AY1 AH0 S) 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.
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