Elias

Where Elias comes from

The New Testament form of Elijah, a Hebrew prophet, from Ancient Greek Ἠλίας (Ēlías).
— Wiktionary's entry for Elias
  • Hebrew
  • 3 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1802
    Elias Lönnrot born
    Finnish physician, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #189 among boys — 65 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1905
    Elias Canetti born
    Bulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer
  4. 2025
    Peak, #13
    8,837 babies named Elias — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Hebrew.
Namesakes
  • Elias Canetti · Bulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer, 1905–1994
  • Elias Lönnrot · Finnish physician, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry, 1802–1884
  • Elias James Corey · American chemist, born 1928
  • Elias Magnus Fries · Swedish biologist considered to be one of the founding fathers of the modern taxonomy of mushrooms, 1794–1878
  • Elias Howe · American inventor, 1819–1866

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.