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Elya

#4,287 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Variant of Élia

Elya has been given to 659 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #4,287 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 28 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 61% boys, 39% girls all-time.

Babies named Elya, 2025

1 in 138,000

Elya over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Elya over time

In 2025, Elya went to 31% girls and 69% boys.

19832025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Elya: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Élia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Elya means

Elya is a variant of Élia.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Élia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 404 boys were recorded with the name Elya between 1991 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 28 in 2019; its best national rank was #3,823 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,585 in 2020 to #4,287 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,203 in 2015 to #4,287 in 2025.

In the United States, 255 girls were recorded with the name Elya between 1983 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2023; its best national rank was #5,443 in 1985.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,123 in 2020 to #9,029 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,673 in 2015 to #9,029 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.

How common is Elya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 138,000
24 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 71,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,287
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
95,747 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Elya sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Elyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Elya was born before 2016 — so the typical Elya is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
40.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
404
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 40.1% of all recorded uses (162).

Is Elya 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
+1,982
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+298
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,916
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.18×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
85.7%
Peak was 2019 (28)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,823
2019

Spellings of Elya

Elya is not the most common spelling — Eli is, with 30.1% against Elya's 0.08%.

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 Elya is used

Across 1910–2025, Elya was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 73,612 across all states with data.

11 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Elya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Elya around the world

Where Elya 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
    2013–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    2006–2023
    #3,603
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2018–2023
    #2,614
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Elya by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,287
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 298
Best rank ever
#3,823
2019
Peak year
2019
28 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
404
Count in 2025
24

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,029
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 94
Best rank ever
#5,443
1985
Peak year
2023
15 that year
First recorded
1983
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
255
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Elya

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

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Sibling names for Elya

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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