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Baby name
Elias
Boy
Origin of the name
Elias is the Greek and Latin form of Elijah, from the Hebrew Eliyahu, “my God is Yahweh.”
Rising name
129,263births since 1880
2020sgeneration
No. 13rank at its peak, in 2025
Where babies named Elias are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Elias is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Elias is most common in New Mexico (2.9 times), Alaska (2.8) and Nevada (2.7), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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