Elia

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Elia: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Elia: Recorded since 1996, its highest recorded position is #288, reached in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
59times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#288highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3795
1998	#2165
1999	#1970
2000	#1831
2001	#1728
2002	#2105
2003	#1843
2004	#1952
2005	#1690
2006	#1983
2007	#1741
2008	#2721
2009	#1668
2010	#2104
2011	#1903
2012	#1428
2013	#1098
2014	#1040
2015	#871
2016	#837
2017	#855
2018	#767
2019	#823
2020	#1013
2021	#884
2022	#857
2023	#706
2024	#736

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 28 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #288 among girls in Northern Ireland, #736 among girls in England and Wales, #736 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #790 among girls in Scotland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3795 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2019–2024
Highest recorded position: #288 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2024 (recorded 2019–2024).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #736 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Elia appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 684 births with the name.

Elia across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Elia's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3795 (1996)	#706 (2023)	#736 (2024)	28 of 29	684 (1996–2024)	51 (2023)
England and Wales · Boys	#3467 (2003)	#1781 (2022)	#2088 (2024)	18 of 22	127 (2003–2024)	13 (2022)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#758 (2010)	#579 (2017)	#736 (2024)	9 of 15	38 (2010–2024)	6 (2016)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#424 (2019)	#288 (2024)	#288 (2024)	3 of 6	11 (2019–2024)	5 (2024)

Elia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Elia in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	18	3 of 10	6
2000s	109	10 of 10	11
2010s	341	10 of 10	34
2020sbusiest	216	5 of 10	43

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 43 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Elia appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #288 in Northern Ireland in 2024.

Elia's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#736	51	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#2088	11	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#706	51	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2160	10	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#857	41	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1781	13	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#884	40	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3017	6	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1013	33	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2404	8	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#823	45	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1869	12	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#767	50	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1991	11	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#855	45	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2512	8	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#837	45	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4810	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#871	42	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3908	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1040	34	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2248	9	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1098	32	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#4685	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1428	22	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1903	14	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2104	12	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2199	9	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1668	16	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3744	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2721	8	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#4432	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1741	14	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1983	11	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2538	6	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1690	13	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1952	10	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3009	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1843	10	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#3467	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2105	8	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1728	10	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1831	9	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1970	8	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2165	7	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3795	3	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#288	5	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#397	3	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#424	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#736	4	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#716	4	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#579	6	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#585	6	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#752	4	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#758	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#790	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 28 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #288, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 51 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2010, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Aura · #288, 25y
Ayden · #288, 30y
Eadie · #288, 26y
Nataniel · #289, 27y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Aura · #288, 25y
Ayden · #288, 30y
Eadie · #288, 26y
Dougie · #287, 26y

Elia was ranked #288 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Elia and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Elia without appearing here.

Elia moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2160 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2088 and #5119.
Ole Compare
In 2021 they stood at #3017 and #3017 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #1781 and #4789.
Cameron Compare
In 2012 they stood at #1428 and #1428 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1098 and #4050.
Glenn Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3017 and #2730 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2160 and #4991.

Moved ahead of Elia

Aksel Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2199 and #3332 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #4685 and #2403.
Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #823 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1013 and #460.
Cassandra Compare
In 2023 they stood at #747 and #905 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2024 that had become #736 and #441.
Astrid Compare
In 2021 they stood at #716 and #871 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2022 that had become #747 and #458.

Moved the opposite way to Elia

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Elia went from #3795 to #736 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Elia went from #3795 to #736 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Elia went from #3795 to #736 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Elia went from #3795 to #736 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Elia

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Elia went from #3795 to #736 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Elia went from #3795 to #736 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Elia went from #3795 to #736 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Elia went from #3795 to #736 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #288 in Northern Ireland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Elia

Elia at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Elia across 4 official records

Elia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Elia appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Elia moved ahead of

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Elia at a glance

Elia across 4 official records

Elia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Elia appears in

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Elia

Elia and the names beside it

Elia moved ahead of

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