Meaning not yet researched.
Elyas: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 156 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,224 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,224 in 2024; #1,263 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Elyas in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,263 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #1,224.
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Elyas: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 156 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,224 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 164 (2024).
In 2025, 156 US boys were named Elyas, making it the 1,263rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 39 places from #1,224 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 164 boys named Elyas in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,224, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 164. For comparison, it was #2,309 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Elyas in 33 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1988 with 7 babies. In all, 2,084 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 855 babies named Elyas.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,264 US boys were named Elyas; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 164. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,949 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Elyas ranked highest in Illinois in 2025, at #653 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Elias (129,502 babies since 1880), Ellis (57,731 babies since 1880), Elyse (21,264 babies since 1880) and Elease (3,047 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Elyas in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 38 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 14 | #653 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #755 | — |
| Michigan | 9 | #790 | — |
| Minnesota | 5 | #842 | — |
| Virginia | 7 | #905 | — |
| New Jersey | 6 | #953 | — |
| Ohio | 8 | #967 | — |
| New York | 12 | #1,010 | — |
| Washington | 5 | #1,043 | — |
| California | 17 | #1,165 | #1,928 |
| Florida | 9 | #1,284 | — |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,407 | — |
| Texas | 9 | #1,791 | #2,208 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 156 | #1,263 |
| 2024 | — | — | 164 | #1,224 |
| 2023 | — | — | 155 | #1,249 |
| 2022 | — | — | 130 | #1,416 |
| 2021 | — | — | 131 | #1,400 |
| 2020 | — | — | 119 | #1,455 |
| 2019 | — | — | 125 | #1,409 |
| 2018 | — | — | 118 | #1,470 |
| 2017 | — | — | 90 | #1,726 |
| 2016 | — | — | 76 | #1,930 |
| 2015 | — | — | 57 | #2,309 |
| 2014 | — | — | 85 | #1,771 |
| 2013 | — | — | 75 | #1,884 |
| 2012 | — | — | 59 | #2,217 |
| 2011 | — | — | 67 | #2,026 |
| 2010 | — | — | 59 | #2,217 |
| 2009 | — | — | 58 | #2,264 |
| 2008 | — | — | 46 | #2,695 |
| 2007 | — | — | 55 | #2,348 |
| 2006 | — | — | 34 | #3,176 |
| 2005 | — | — | 31 | #3,263 |
| 2004 | — | — | 37 | #2,800 |
| 2003 | — | — | 25 | #3,555 |
| 2002 | — | — | 28 | #3,209 |
| 2001 | — | — | 15 | #4,960 |
| 2000 | — | — | 19 | #4,103 |
| 1999 | — | — | 19 | #3,884 |
| 1998 | — | — | 8 | #7,046 |
| 1997 | — | — | 14 | #4,519 |
| 1996 | — | — | 11 | #5,296 |
| 1995 | — | — | 6 | #8,117 |
| 1994 | — | — | 5 | #9,251 |
| 1988 | — | — | 7 | #5,960 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).