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Elea

Elea reached its high-water mark in 2023 at number 3,585, and has been recorded 390 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 4,878th. About 390 Eleas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 7.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Elea

By the numbers

Total US births
390
Estimated living today
390
Median age today
7
Peak year
2023
Best rank
3,585th
Rank in 2025
4,878th
First recorded
1983

How old the living Eleas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 390 babies given the name since 1983, about 390 are alive — 99 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2018 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Elea is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Elea is most concentrated in California (6.0×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2023

The most popular girls’ names the year Elea peaked:

All the names of 2023

Elea elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France girls Elea +5 spellings 15,860 93rd
Switzerland girls Elea +2 spellings 1,717 51st
Belgium girls Eléa +2 spellings 1,362 141st
Norway girls Elea 465 114th
England and Wales girls Elea 133 1,640th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Elea: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German girls Switzerland Elea 1,286 0.103% 41st
German girls Switzerland Eléa 75 0.006% 514th
German girls Switzerland Éléa 1 0.000% 2,004th
French girls Switzerland Eléa 209 0.048% 101st
French girls Switzerland Elea 118 0.027% 180th
French girls Switzerland Éléa 22 0.005% 444th
Italian girls Switzerland Elea 2 0.003% 162nd
Italian girls Switzerland Eléa 1 0.002% 181st
Romansh girls Switzerland Elea 3 0.081% 11th

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Elea is most concentrated in Jura, where 0.20% of children were given it – 29 of them.

Elea: rank by region

In 2025, Elea was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Eléa 753 6
Wallonia Eléa 210 13
Wallonia Elea 399 6

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Elea appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (153rd).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Elea by city

CityYears BirthsBest rank
Berlin girls 2017–2023 82 177th

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Elea among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland girls Elea +1 spelling 950 1,811

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Elea lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 178 women called Elea were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Ourense Elea 6 0.038 1,192
Tarragona Elea 9 0.021 2,273
Palmas, Las Elea 10 0.017 3,759
Santa Cruz de Tenerife Elea 9 0.016 3,588
Navarra Elea 5 0.014 2,867
Girona Elea 5 0.012 3,235

Listed in 10 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 42 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

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Elea against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.