Elia
Still rare in Poland: most people here have never met one, though newborn numbers keep climbing and last year brought more than any year before it. Hebrew at root, from a name that reads "my god is Yahweh".
Elia Pronunciation
Elia is pronounced EL-yah (/ˈɛlja/).
What Elia means
Where Elia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Elia begins in Hebrew, in the older form Eliyahu. Its meaning is a claim: my god is yahweh. Whoever carried it announced which god they answered to.
In Italy the name attached to the prophet Elijah, and Elia became his everyday Italian form. Italian boys named Elia often share a feast on 20 July, the date the calendar keeps for Sant'Elia. The same Hebrew root gives Elias in Greek and Ilya further east, so the family is wide even where the spelling is not.
Elia stays short. On a Polish class register it needs no shortening. It carries no diminutive and no separate variant of its own. What it carries instead is the old Hebrew line, unchanged by the softer Italian sound: my god is yahweh.
How many people are named Elia
1 in 418553 men in Poland is named Elia. 97 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3515 among male names.
Elia's popularity over time
4 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #1036 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2023.
Elia as a middle name
Elia is a first name for 97 men in Poland and a middle name for another 33, a 75/25 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1213th, between Constanza (33) and Emmanuelle (33).
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#1211 Caterina33
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#1212 Constanza33
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#1213 Elia33
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#1214 Emmanuelle33
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#1215 Ha33