Given name · also Spanish
Elodia
“a wealthy foreigner”
Elodia is used as a given name. One Spanish interpretation is “a wealthy foreigner.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Spanish interpretation is “a wealthy foreigner.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Spanish.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1893. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Elodia through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,813
- 0 boys · 1,813 girls
- Most popular year
- 1927
- 48 babies
- 2025
- 9
- #10,338 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 9 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 10,338 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 48 in 1927. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,186 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Elodia’s family of names
Elodia shares a linguistic root with Elodie. Elodia has a related form in Elodea. Elodia has a related form in Elodie.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 8
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 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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