Elaia
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Elaia is a given name, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. It appears chiefly in French and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Greek name related to elaia ‘olive tree’.
- ESSpain1 in 29K◐
- FRFrance1 in 55K
- GFFrench Guiana1 in 30K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3.0K ●
- Sources
- 71 ●
- 1 in 29K ◐
across 6 countries
3.0K records
Official registry-verified
Spain
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Elaa in SY Syria, TR Türkiye, TN Tunisia and 7 more and Ela-A in IN India.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Greek name related to elaia ‘olive tree’
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 1,699△ | 11 rec. | 1 in 29K | 1.7K | Elaia | 5 |
| FR France | — | 1,230 | 1K rec. | 1 in 55K | 1.2K | Elaia | 71 |
| SY Syria | — | 824 | 828 rec. | — | — | Elaa | 7 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 488 | 489 rec. | — | — | Elaa | 11 |
| US United States | — | 139 | 163 rec. | — | 58 | Elaia | 25 |
| TN Tunisia | — | 89 | 86 rec. | — | — | Elaa | 14 |
| DE Germany | — | 58 | 107 rec. | — | listed | Elaa | 10 |
| EG Egypt | — | 42 | 58 rec. | — | — | Elaa | 17 |
| AT Austria | — | 37 | 14 rec. | — | 5 | Elaa | 7 |
| BR Brazil | — | 32 | 0 rec. | 1 in 6.6M | 40 | Elaia | 1 |
| AU Australia | — | 27 | 24 rec. | — | 1 | Elaa | 9 |
| IN India | — | 22 | 23 rec. | — | — | Ela-A | 4 |
Roughly 1.7K people in Spain bear this name (about 1 in 29K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French7.1K54%
- Spanish4K30%
- Catalan1.7K13%
- Portuguese2192%
- English1391%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 7,116 | 54% |
| Spanish | 3,991 | 30% |
| Catalan | 1,699 | 13% |
| Portuguese | 219 | 2% |
| English | 139 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Elaia is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Origine basque; signifie « hirondelle ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2010 | 6 |
| 2013 | 6 |
| 2015 | 8 |
| 2017 | 5 |
| 2018 | 9 |
| 2019 | 22 |
| 2020 | 22 |
| 2021 | 29 |
| 2022 | 27 |
| 2023 | 53 |
| 2024 | 64 |
| 2025 | 58 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 12 years between 2010–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Evidence●
Attested in 25 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.7K | #1,961 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.3K | #1,181 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1K | #1,332 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 64 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 58 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 54 | #1,022 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 53 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 40 | #39,696 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 39 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2022 | 33 | #1,439 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 32 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 32 | #90,373 |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 75 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Elaia?
- We estimate roughly 3.0 thousand people bear Elaia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Elaia have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 1.7 thousand people bear Elaia in Spain, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled elaia.
- Where is Elaia most common?
- Elaia is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 29 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is Elaia compared with other names?
- In French Guiana, Elaia is the 721st most common given name of 922 given names recorded there.
- Is Elaia a male or female name?
- Elaia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Elaia mean?
- Recorded meaning: Greek name related to elaia ‘olive tree’
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Elaia” — the 721st most common given name in French Guiana. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.