Elias

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Elias Canetti

Bulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer (1905–1994)

Choose Elias and your child shares a first name with Elias Canetti, a Bulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer. A ready-made answer when someone asks “Elias, like who?” Elias Canetti's Wikipedia article is available in 112 languages, a good sign of just how widely known they are.

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• 👶How commonAbout 1 in every 193 baby boys born in the US in 2025 was named Elias, 8,837 babies in all. In a school of 500 kids, there'd probably be one other Elias.
• 📜HistoryElias has been in use since at least 1880, the first year US birth records were kept. That's 145 years of Eliass, and counting.
• 🏆Best yearElias is at its all-time high right now: #13 in 2025.
• 📈Then vs nowElias is 7.2× more common today than it was in 2000. In 2000 it was given to about 1 in 1,400 baby boys; in 2025, about 1 in 193.
• 🚀TrendElias has climbed 41 places in the US rankings over the last five years and now sits at #13. Fast risers like this often keep climbing, so expect to hear it more.
• 📍Where it's lovedElias is most popular in Arizona, where it ranks #6, followed by Alaska (#7) and California (#8). It makes the top 1,000 in almost every state.
• 💬MeaningElias is a Greek form of Elijah, which means “my God is Yahweh”. Our records link it to Greek, Hebrew and Latin roots.
• 🌍OriginElias is the #4 most popular Greek boy name in the US. That's out of 2,023 Greek boy and unisex names in our list.

About the name Elias

Elias is a boy name of Greek, Hebrew and Latin origin meaning “my God is Yahweh”. It has 5 letters and 2 syllables, starting with E and ending in “-ias”. US birth records list Elias for boys from 1880 to 2025, in 146 of those 146 years. Its best year was 2025, when it ranked #13 among boy names. In 2025 it ranked #13, with 8,837 babies.

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