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The ELIA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,042 9814 0.001 11
United States (1880 census) 6 95829 0 0
Change since 1880 +3036 +86015 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 221 6865 0.001 14
United Kingdom 329 11978 0.001 7
Top States for ELIA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 496 3652 0.003 26
California 379 6827 0.001 11
New Jersey 318 2819 0.004 38
Pennsylvania 243 5866 0.002 20
Massachusetts 213 3810 0.003 34
Top States for ELIA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Jersey 318 2819 0.004 38
Massachusetts 213 3810 0.003 34
Alaska 18 4705 0.003 29
New York 496 3652 0.003 26
Connecticut 86 5006 0.003 25

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called ELIA live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called ELIA represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called ELIA in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a ELIA by picking someone at random in New Jersey than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of ELIA

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Greece

Language of origin: Greek

Ethnic origin: Hellenic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the ELIA surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the ELIA surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of ELIA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 118 3.88
Mixed Race 115 3.78
Asian/Pacific 100 3.29
Black/African American 59 1.94
Native American/Alaskan 21 0.69
White (Caucasian) 2,629 86.42

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the ELIA surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of ELIA in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of ELIA.

Similar names to ELIA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ELIA.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for ELIA

The following words are slight variants of ELIA that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.