Ellias
Ellias was given to 23 boys in 2025, #4,434 among boys’ names; 475 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ellias by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ellias?
#4,434 among boys’ names, 2025
Ellias rose from #6,788 in 2015 to #4,434 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 6.3 to 13.5 per million.
36 babies in 2023, the peak
Ellias peaked in 2023, when 36 boys were given it, #3,310 among boys’ names. The 23 births of 2025 are 64% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #4,434 | 13.5 |
| 2024 | 32 | #3,539 | 18.6 |
| 2023 | 36 | #3,310 | 21.0 |
| 2022 | 35 | #3,355 | 20.0 |
| 2021 | 25 | #4,141 | 14.3 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,676 | 5.8 |
| 2019 | 35 | #3,278 | 19.5 |
| 2018 | 20 | #4,790 | 11.0 |
| 2017 | 25 | #4,137 | 13.5 |
| 2016 | 18 | #5,184 | 9.5 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #6,788 | 6.3 |
| 2014 | 14 | #6,084 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 6 | #11,130 | 3.2 |
| 2012 | 16 | #5,545 | 8.4 |
| 2011 | 15 | #5,746 | 7.9 |
| 2010 | 10 | #7,746 | 5.2 |
| 2009 | 13 | #6,542 | 6.6 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,505 | 6.4 |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,756 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,585 | 4.9 |
| 2005 | 13 | #5,964 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 14 | #5,572 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 12 | #5,976 | 6.1 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,202 | 5.7 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,079 | 4.6 |
| 2000 | 5 | #10,897 | 2.5 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,520 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,249 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,231 | 3.7 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,039 | 3.6 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,435 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ellias a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ellias has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ellias: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ellias, and how old are they?
An estimated 470 Americans named Ellias and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 406 people named Ellias (16 women and girls, 390 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 313 born in the U.S. The Census count is 30% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Ellias?
Ellias is a less common spelling of Elias: SSA has recorded 475 Ellias and 129,502 Elias since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 191,472 babies since 1880, Ellias is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 10,895 babies (<1%), the fifth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ellias
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ellias and names like it
- Compare Ellias and EliasBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sEllias peaked in 2023.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ellias since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Ellias.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ellias alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.