Is Elia a male or female name?
Elia is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in Spain at 100% and male usage in Switzerland at 90%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- female
- Probability
- 81%
- Sample size
- 39,839
- Confidence
- high
Elia by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spain ES | female | 100% | 11,018 | ine |
| France FR | female | 95% | 10,335 | insee |
| United States US | female | 90% | 9,843 | ssa |
| Switzerland CH | male | 90% | 5,959 | bfs |
| Canada CA | female | 89% | 995 | statcan |
| England and Wales GB | female | 83% | 900 | ons |
| Austria AT | male | 89% | 641 | statat |
| Poland PL | female | 52% | 110 | pesel |
| Ireland IE | female | 100% | 38 | cso |
Attested in 25 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
AT · AU · AZ · BE · BY · CA · CH · DE · ES · FR · GB · GE · IE · IN · IT · LI · LU · MD · MT · PL · PT · RU · SE · SM · US
Elia over time
In the United States, 94.1% of the babies named Elia in the 1910s were girls, against 90.9% in the 2020s. In France, 100% of the babies named Elia in the 1900s were girls, against 92.4% in the 2020s.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies | France: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | — | 100% | 725 | |
| 1910s | 94% | 188 | 99% | 615 |
| 1920s | 87% | 388 | 100% | 685 |
| 1930s | 91% | 420 | 97% | 310 |
| 1940s | 94% | 450 | — | |
| 1950s | 95% | 610 | — | |
| 1960s | 91% | 521 | — | |
| 1970s | 84% | 629 | 96% | 115 |
| 1980s | 82% | 694 | 95% | 195 |
| 1990s | 87% | 856 | 90% | 565 |
| 2000s | 88% | 1,282 | 94% | 2,100 |
| 2010s | 91% | 2,061 | 95% | 3,125 |
| 2020s | 91% | 1,589 | 92% | 1,705 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Elia with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Elia&country=ES" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Elia
Is Elia a male or female name?
Elia is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in Spain at 100% and male usage in Switzerland at 90%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Elia change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Elia identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.