Elya

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Эля in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan and 5 more and Еля in UA Ukraine.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 3 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◐

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

• Indonesian given name5.8K records spelled Elya4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, Kyrgyzstan, Russia

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written 'Elya, Elyã

• English given name5.7K records spelled Elya9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Belgium, Canada, Malaysia

  Languages: English, Dutch, German

  Also written Ēlya, Ëlyä, Élya, Ëlÿà, Èlya

• Spanish given name1.1K records spelled Elya6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Peru, Mexico

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Elyã, Élya, Elyá

• Hindi given name942 records spelled Elya3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Malaysia, Kyrgyzstan, United States

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  Also written Ëlýá

• Arabic given name686 records spelled Elya11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Malaysia, Egypt, United States, Syria

  Also written Ëlyâ, Êlýà, Elyã, Ęlyå, Élya

• Hebrew given name295 records spelled Elya32 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Israel, Iraq, Morocco, Qatar

  Languages: Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written אליהו, Eliyahu, Eliahu, Elijah, Elyahu

• a separate given name266 records spelled Elya2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India

  Also written Ēlya

• Kazakh given name124 records spelled Elya6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia

  Languages: Kazakh, Kyrgyz

  Also written Эля

28 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.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 40 years between 1983–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Elya Setiawanb. 1970IDbadminton player

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 · 206 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Elya?

We estimate roughly 7.9 thousand people bear Elya (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Elya have the most bearers?

Elya is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled эля.

How common is Elya compared with other names?

In Russia, Elya is the 632nd most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.

Is Elya a male or female name?

Elya 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.