Elya
Elya is a boy's name that peaked in 2019, when it was the 3,794th most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 4,249th. About 650 Elyas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 10.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Elya boys named Elya
Girls and boys called Elya
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 255 girls and 404 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 11 to 24.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 11 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 659
- Estimated living today
- 650
- Median age today
- 10
- Peak year
- 2019
- Best rank
- 3,794th
- Rank in 2025
- 4,249th
- First recorded
- 1983
- Girls / boys
- 255 / 404
How old the living Elyas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 659 babies given the name since 1983, about 650 are alive — 99 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2015 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.
Notable Elyas
- Elya Baskin (born 1950)Russian actor
People named Elya with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Elya is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Elya is most concentrated in New York (12.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2019
The most popular boys’ names the year Elya peaked:
Elya elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Elya +2 spellings | 8,350 | 95th |
| Belgium girls | Elya +1 spelling | 448 | 233rd |
| Switzerland girls | Elya | 207 | 370th |
| England and Wales girls | Elya | 71 | 2,925th |
| France boys | Elya | 45 | 3,603rd |
| Switzerland boys | Elya | 30 | 1,227th |
| England and Wales boys | Elya | 20 | 4,023rd |
| Poland girls | Elya | 2 birth registrations | 721st |
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.
Elya: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Elya | 29 | 0.002% | 592nd |
| German boys | Switzerland | Elya | 20 | 0.002% | 1,099th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Elya | 177 | 0.041% | 101st |
| French boys | Switzerland | Elya | 9 | 0.002% | 607th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Elya | 1 | 0.002% | 186th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Elya | 1 | 0.002% | 181st |
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, Elya is most concentrated in Vaud, where 0.05% of children were given it – 81 of them.
Elya: rank by region
In 2025, Elya was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Elya | 90 | 27 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Elya appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (56th) and Province of Liège (138th).
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.
Elya by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 6 | 538th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Related names
Elya against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.