Elie

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Helias in BR Brazil and Élie in CM Cameroon.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Elie is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name74K records spelled Elie19 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Canada, Australia, Lebanon

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Élie, Eli-E, Èlie, Êlîe, Èlįê

• Portuguese given name17K records spelled Elie9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Venezuela, Argentina

  Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

  Also written Élie, Eliê, Elié, Ëlîê, Ėlie

• a separate given name3.0K records spelled Elie4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Morocco, Lebanon, Canada

  Also written Élie, Eliê, Èlie

• Indonesian given name2.6K records spelled Elie4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Lebanon, Indonesia, Canada

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Elië, Élie

• French (Côte d’Ivoire) given name2.1K records spelled Elie2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

  Also written Élie

• Danish given name695 records spelled Elie8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Denmark, Sweden, Lebanon

  Languages: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish

  Also written Élie, Elįē, Ëlîë

• Finnish given name662 records spelled Elie4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, United States, Lebanon, Canada

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Ëlie, Élie

• Czech given name535 records spelled Elie3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Czechia, Cyprus, Slovakia

  Languages: Czech, Slovak

  Also written Élie

74 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Elie is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In French, Origine hébraïque, signifie « mon maître est Dieu ».

  as a name·Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

• In French, Hebreu, de Eliyahu, «Mon Dieu est YHWH».

  as a name·Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

• In Latin, Eliahu; Algeria

  as a name·Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

• In French, From Hebrew Eliyyahu, 'my God is Yahweh'.

  as a name·Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

• In umb, interrog., who

  as a word·Vocabulary of the Umbundu Language

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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 144 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Eli Whitneyb. 1765USnot in their usual nameAmerican inventor (1765-1825)
• Eli Wallachb. 1915USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (1915–2014)
• Eli Cohenb. 1924EGnot in their usual nameIsraeli spy (1924–1965)
• Eugene Garfieldb. 1925USnot in their usual nameAmerican information and library scientist (1925–2017)
• Gil Kaneb. 1926USnot in their usual nameAmerican comic book artist (1926–2000)
• Elie Wieselb. 1928USRomanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor (1928-2016)
• Elie Samahab. 1955LBAmerican film producer
• Eli Rothb. 1972USnot in their usual nameAmerican filmmaker and actor
• Eli Manningb. 1981USnot in their usual nameAmerican football player (born 1981)
• Ben Rappaportb. 1986USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 826 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Elie?

We estimate roughly 49 thousand people bear Elie (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.

In which country does Elie have the most bearers?

We estimate about 45 thousand people bear Elie in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled elie.

How common is Elie compared with other names?

In France, Elie is the 370th most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.

Is Elie a male or female name?

Elie is a male 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 Elie mean?

Recorded meaning: Hébreu Eliyahu, « mon Dieu est Yahvé »; fête du prophète Élie le 20 juillet.