Elias
Elias holds the #13 spot in the 2025 national count, and more parents pick it every year. An old entry (1880) having its biggest moment now, with 129,263 American bearers across the record.
What Elias carries
Elias’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Elias, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Elias since 1880
Elias is at its all-time peak right now: #13 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Elias is most common
By share of a state's recorded boys' names, Elias runs strongest in Alaska at 1.45% in 2025, then Wyoming and New Mexico.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Elias
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Ezra
#20 in 2025 · Hebrew
Ellie
#24 in 2025
Ella
#29 in 2025 · Teutonic
Eden
#70 in 2025
Enzo
#72 in 2025
Eithan
#97 in 2025
Eli
#104 in 2025
Easton
#110 in 2025
Browse: names starting with E · all names
About Elias
How common is Elias today?
Elias holds the #13 spot in the 2025 national count, and more parents pick it every year. Every point on the chart is the SSA's own count, back to 1880.
What is the recorded meaning of Elias?
The reference we cite records “the Lord” (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
What names go with Elias?
Ezra, Ellie and Ella sit nearest to Elias on origin, era, syllables and first letter. Put your own names into the sibling matcher for a list scored against them.
Get Elias’s free Name Kit
Five printables made in your browser: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Yours in a moment, for one email.
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A printed picture book where Elias earns every letter of their own name, page by page. See the preview pages and hear when it is ready.
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