Given name & surname
Élie
“my God is Yahweh”
Élie is a masculine given name. It is used in French.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Élie goes back to Latin Elias, meaning “my God is Yahweh.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Élie’s family of names
In French usage, Élie has a conventional equivalent in the English form Elijah. In French usage, Élie has a conventional equivalent in the German form Elias. In French usage, Élie has a conventional equivalent in the Swedish form Elia.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Élie has relatives in 31 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
24 related names in 31 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 32
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- ElijahEnglish, ia
- EliasPortuguese, German
- EliaSwedish, Dutch
- Iliasequivalent
- Ilyaequivalent
- EliyaSwahili, swb
- ElijaEsperanto, German
- IlijaSerbian
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- Illiaequivalent
- IlieRomanian
- EliaszPolish
- Iljaequivalent
- Eljasequivalent
- Eliášequivalent
- Hélieequivalent
- Illésequivalent
- Ильяequivalent
- ЭлиRussian
- ElíasSpanish
- אליהוYiddish
- ІлляUkrainian
- ElijášCzech
- IliyasaComorian
- ИлијаSerbian
- ИлияRussian
- エリヤJapanese
- אֵלִיָּהוBiblical Hebrew, Hebrew
- ἨλίαςAncient Greek
- ΗλίαςGreek
- 以利亞Chinese
- EliesCatalan
- إِلْيَاسArabic
People named Élie
- Élie DucommunSwiss activist (1833-1906)
- Élie CartanFrench mathematician (1869–1951)
- Élie, duc DecazesFrench judge and politician (1780-1860)
- BoobaFrench rapperborn 1976
- Élie BaupFrench footballerborn 1955
- Élie-Abel CarrièreFrench Botanist (1818–1896)
- Élie Bayolracecar driver1914–1995
- Élie FaureFrench art historian and essayist (1873-1937)
- Élie OkoboFrench basketball player (born 1997)
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