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How popular is the name Elia?
Births per year, rank history and how many Elias are alive today.
Elia (female) is an uncommon spelling of the girls' name Alaya in England and Wales, ranked 894th in 2025 with 39 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2023, when 51 babies were given the name, the 706th most popular that year. Numbers have been rising in recent years.
Across all spellings of the name, the Alaya you are most likely to meet is around 2 years old. Half of all Alayas born in England and Wales are between 3 and 11, and there are at least 2,500 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Alaya - on average, only one in every 126 such rooms contains a Alaya.
How many babies are named Elia each year?
Includes all spellings: Elia, Alaya, Aliah. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Elia spelling rank?
Where does the Alaya spelling rank?
Where does the Aliah spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Elia most popular?
The most popular form of the name, Alaya, peaked in 2024, when 273 babies in England and Wales were given the name. The Elia spelling itself peaked in 2023, with 51 babies.
How many people are called Elia?
At least 2,500 people named Elia in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Elia?
Most living Elias are between 3 and 11; the most common age is about 2.
Is Elia becoming more or less popular?
Rising: numbers have been climbing in recent years.