Eliasz
A Hebrew name carrying a whole declaration: "my god is Yahweh". It sits just inside Poland's top thousand, given only to boys and rarely enough that most Poles have never met one.
Eliasz Pronunciation
Eliasz is pronounced EL-yahsh (/ˈɛljaʂ/).
What Eliasz means
Where Eliasz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Eliasz comes from the Hebrew name Eliyahu, and it makes a small confession of faith. Its meaning, "my god is yahweh," was less a label than a statement about whose side a family stood on. The prophet who carried it, called Eliasz in Polish, spent his life arguing that point against the priests of Baal on Mount Carmel.
That biblical weight is why the name never quite settled into the ordinary. In Poland the main imieniny falls on 20 July, the feast of the prophet, so a boy named Eliasz shares his day with a figure who was said to leave the earth in a chariot of fire.
The Greek-shaped variant Ilias travels the same root, worn smoother by another language. Both point back to the same declaration.
Read a school register today and Eliasz sits among the newer arrivals, a short name with an old spine. It has kept its meaning intact for a long time. Say it and you are saying, in Hebrew still, that my god is yahweh.
When Eliasz celebrates name day
Eliasz appears 7 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 16 February.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Eliasz
1 in 13366 men in Poland is named Eliasz. 1,597 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #777 among male names.
Eliasz's popularity over time
26 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #463 among newborns. It has been stable for a decade.
Where parents choose Eliasz
Eliasz is most popular in Podlaskie, 138% above the national average (16 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Greater Poland (+50%) and Lower Silesian (+37%). It is least common in Warmian-Masurian and Subcarpathian, 73% and 59% below average respectively.
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Podlaskie
+138%1 in 4,112 babies
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Greater Poland
+50%1 in 6,523 babies
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Lower Silesian
+37%1 in 7,142 babies
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Warmian-Masurian
−73%1 in 35,897 babies
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Subcarpathian
−59%1 in 24,113 babies
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Lublin
−52%1 in 20,535 babies
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Podlaskie+138% 16 born1 in 4,112 babies+138%
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Greater Poland+50% 33 born1 in 6,523 babies+50%
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Lower Silesian+37% 22 born1 in 7,142 babies+37%
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Silesian+37% 32 born1 in 7,112 babies+37%
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Lesser Poland+25% 29 born1 in 7,825 babies+25%
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Lubusz−2% 5 born1 in 9,931 babies−2%
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Pomeranian−7% 14 born1 in 10,523 babies−7%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian−11% 10 born1 in 10,938 babies−11%
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Opole−15% 4 born1 in 11,524 babies−15%
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Masovian−17% 30 born1 in 11,809 babies−17%
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West Pomeranian−31% 6 born1 in 14,071 babies−31%
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Łódź−38% 8 born1 in 15,840 babies−38%
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Lublin−52% 5 born1 in 20,535 babies−52%
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Subcarpathian−59% 5 born1 in 24,113 babies−59%
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Warmian-Masurian−73% 2 born1 in 35,897 babies−73%
Eliasz as a middle name
Eliasz is a first name for 1,597 men in Poland and a middle name for another 795, a 67/33 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 254th, between Kryspin (800) and Kevin (772).
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#252 Cyryl804
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#253 Kryspin800
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#254 Eliasz795
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#255 Kevin772
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#256 Vincent768