Eliya
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Eliya is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script.
- TZTanzania1 in 8.5K◐
- INIndia1 in 616K
- MWMalawi1 in 1.4K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈720 ●
- Sources
- 112 ●
- 1 in 165K ◐
across 9 countries
5.9K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 22 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 5,284 | 2K rec. | — | 31 | Eliya | 25 |
| TZ Tanzania | #533 | 1,564 | 891 rec. | — | — | Eliya | 22 |
| KE Kenya | — | 852 | 165 rec. | — | — | Eliya | 13 |
| US United States | — | 584 | 1K rec. | 1 in 570K | 584 | Eliya | 112 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 304 | 313 rec. | — | — | Eliya | 13 |
| MW Malawi | #151 | 293 | 2 rec. | — | listed | Eliya | 10 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 231 | 446 rec. | — | — | Eliya | 17 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 220 | 241 rec. | — | — | Eliya | 13 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 196 | 218 rec. | — | — | Eliya | 13 |
| IL Israel | — | 174 | 183 rec. | — | — | Eliya | 35 |
| CA Canada | — | 137 | 31 rec. | — | 2 | Eliya | 15 |
| AU Australia | — | 106 | 104 rec. | — | 1 | Eliya | 24 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English3.3K19%
- Swahili2.2K13%
- Indonesian2.2K13%
- Hindi1.8K11%
- Assamese1.1K7%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 3,259 | 19% |
| Swahili | 2,233 | 13% |
| Indonesian | 2,164 | 13% |
| Hindi | 1,815 | 11% |
| Assamese | 1,124 | 7% |
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●
Eliya 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 Xhosa, that over there, yonder; class 5 remote demonstrative.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 |
|---|---|
| 1993 | 7 |
| 1996 | 5 |
| 1997 | 7 |
| 1998 | 13 |
| 1999 | 25 |
| 2000 | 17 |
| 2001 | 25 |
| 2002 | 23 |
| 2003 | 20 |
| 2004 | 25 |
| 2005 | 17 |
| 2006 | 14 |
| 2007 | 28 |
| 2008 | 24 |
| 2009 | 34 |
| 2010 | 35 |
| 2011 | 44 |
| 2012 | 45 |
| 2013 | 33 |
| 2014 | 22 |
| 2015 | 41 |
| 2016 | 29 |
| 2017 | 20 |
| 2018 | 32 |
| 2019 | 29 |
| 2020 | 31 |
| 2021 | 43 |
| 2022 | 44 |
| 2023 | 34 |
| 2024 | 34 |
| 2025 | 36 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 31 years between 1993–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Eliya Abunab. 1862IQBishop of the Assyrian Church of the East
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●
Attested in 43 sources across 22 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 162 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Eliya?
- We estimate roughly 720 people bear Eliya (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Eliya have the most bearers?
- Eliya is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled eliya.
- How common is Eliya compared with other names?
- In Malawi, Eliya is the 151st most common given name of 2,887 given names recorded there.
- Is Eliya a male or female name?
- Eliya 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.
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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, “Eliya” — the 151st most common given name in Malawi. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.