Elia

Where Elia comes from

Elia hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1884
    First appearance
    #1,024 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1989
    Elia Viviani born
    Italian racing cyclist
  3. 1997
    Elia Meschak born
    Congolese association football player
  4. 2024
    Peak, #841
    321 babies named Elia — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Elia Viviani · Italian racing cyclist, born 1989
  • Elia Meschak · Congolese association football player, born 1997
  • Elia Abu Madi · Lebanese-American poet, 1889–1957
  • Elia Dalla Costa · Catholic cardinal, 1872–1961
  • Elia Millosevich · Italian astronomer, 1848–1919

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.