The ELIAS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	19,394	1694	0.007	72
United States (1880 census)	770	6788	0.002	15
Change since 1880	+18624	+5094	+0.005	+57
Other Countries
Australia	1,046	1576	0.006	64
United Kingdom	1,493	3773	0.003	33

Top States for ELIAS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	4,135	847	0.012	122
Florida	1,745	1312	0.011	109
Texas	1,709	1599	0.008	82
New York	1,492	1343	0.008	79
Pennsylvania	1,186	1323	0.010	97
Top States for ELIAS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Arizona	834	797	0.016	163
California	4,135	847	0.012	122
Florida	1,745	1312	0.011	109
Massachusetts	642	1571	0.010	101
New Jersey	815	1224	0.010	97

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of ELIAS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the ELIAS 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 ELIAS 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 ELIAS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	739	3.81
Mixed Race	400	2.06
Asian/Pacific	211	1.09
Native American/Alaskan	70	0.36
White (Caucasian)	9,208	47.48
White (Hispanic)	8,768	45.21

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

Similar names to ELIAS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ELIAS.

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.