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Elyas

#1,263 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Elyas has been given to 2,084 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #1,263 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 164 recorded.

Babies named Elyas, 2025

1 in 21,300

Elyas over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Elyas: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Elyas means

Elyas is a given name.

The naming story behind Elyas

Wikidata records Elyas as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q20000341, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,084 boys were recorded with the name Elyas between 1988 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 164 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,224 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,455 in 2020 to #1,263 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,308 in 2015 to #1,263 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 Elyas?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 21,300
156 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 10,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,263
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
14,731 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Elyas 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 14,731 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elyas. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Elyass were born

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

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
41.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,084
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 41.0% of all recorded uses (855).

Is Elyas 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
−39
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+192
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,045
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.74×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
95.1%
Peak was 2024 (164)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,224
2024

Spellings of Elyas

Elyas is not the most common spelling — Elias is, with 50.1% against Elyas's 0.81%.

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 Elyas is used

Across 2016–2025, Elyas was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 8,333 boys, against 1 in 14,192 across all states with data. It was least common in Georgia (1 in 100,000).

112 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 8,333
  2. 2New York1 in 9,091
  3. 3California1 in 10,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 10,000
  5. 5Virginia1 in 11,111
  6. 6Florida1 in 14,286
  7. 7Texas1 in 14,286
  8. 8Minnesota1 in 16,667

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.

Elyas around the world

Where Elyas 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
    #611
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2018–2025
    #647
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2016–2024
    #785
    in 2024
  • France
    1984–2025
    #253
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1994–2024
    #547
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2004–2013
    #499
    in 2013

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

Notable people named Elyas

People whose public names include Elyas, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Elyas by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,263
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 192
Best rank ever
#1,224
2024
Peak year
2024
164 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,084
Count in 2025
156

Names similar to Elyas

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

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Names with a curve like Elyas

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Elyas, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

MalikaiJeriahYazanErosScoutZavianDaviKylinGadielShiaZephyrTaylen

Sibling names for Elyas

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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