Given name & surname

Elies

Elies is a given name. It is used in Catalan.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Elies comes from Latin.

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How it developed

From Latin Elias.

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Elies’s family of names

In Catalan usage, Elies has a conventional equivalent in the English form Elijah. In Catalan usage, Elies has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form Elias. In Catalan usage, Elies has a conventional equivalent in the French form Élie.

Walk Elies’s family in the name graph

EliesElliesElijahEliasIlyaElieIliasIlijaIlliaIlieEliaszІлляElíasIllésИльяÉlieEliáš

Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Around the world

Elies has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.

Latin

3 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.

Each dot marks where a language is rooted, not where people with the name live today. Bigger dots hold more names. Language locations from Glottolog (CC BY 4.0); map from Natural Earth.

Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

People named Elies

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

Similar names

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Latin

Emīls

Emīls is a masculine given name from Latin. It is used in Latvian.

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Latin

Eneias

Eneias is a masculine given name. It is used in Portuguese.

No U.S. birth series

92% boys · 8% girls

Latin

Efrém

Efrém is a given name from Latin. It is used in Czech.

No U.S. birth series

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Latin

Eemil

Eemil is a masculine given name from Swedish, ultimately from Latin. It is used in Finnish.

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Latin

Élysée

Élysée is a given name from Latin. It is used in French.

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Latin

Elifi

Elifi is a masculine given name from Latin. It is used in Catalan.

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Latin

Élisée

Élisée is a masculine given name. It is used in French.

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Ancient Greek

Eumenes

Eumenes is a given name from Latin, ultimately from Ancient Greek.

No U.S. birth series

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Sibling ideas

Names that share Elies’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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