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Elea

#4,909 in 2025Girls' name

Short form of Eleanor

Elea has been given to 390 babies in the U.S. since 1983. In 2025 it ranked #4,909 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 43 recorded.

Babies named Elea, 2025

1 in 123,000

Elea over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Elea: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Eleanor

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Elea means

Elea is a short form of Eleanor.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Elea → Eleanor. The family’s proposed meaning is “other”, recorded in English with the source elements alia.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eleanor.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 390 girls were recorded with the name Elea between 1983 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 43 in 2023; its best national rank was #3,608 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,310 in 2020 to #4,909 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,092 in 2015 to #4,909 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Elea?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 123,000
27 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 59,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,909
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
85,108 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Elea sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elea. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eleas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Elea was born before 2018 — so the typical Elea is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
44.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
390
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 44.6% of all recorded uses (174).

Is Elea rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−773
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,401
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,183
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.29×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
62.8%
Peak was 2023 (43)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
58.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,608
2023

Spellings of Elea

Elea is not the most common spelling — Helen is, with 17.7% against Elea's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Elea is used

Across 1910–2025, Elea was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 663,237 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Elea has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Elea around the world

Where Elea ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1999–2025
    #2,138
    in 2025
  • France
    1976–2025
    #367
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #162
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2005–2024
    #1,191
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1977–1977
    #637
    in 1977

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Elea by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,909
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,401
Best rank ever
#3,608
2023
Peak year
2023
43 that year
First recorded
1983
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
390
Count in 2025
27

Names similar to Elea

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Elea

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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