Elya is a first name for all genders, most often used for boys.
At least in the US, the name Elya is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Elya each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Elya will meet someone with the same name. So, Elya is a very special name!
In fact, the name Elya did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Elya seemed to be more popular than ever in 2019. Although the name never ranked higher than #6,689, 38 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Elya, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Elya was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Elya a few times. Among all babies it ranked #8,467 - with a total of 27 newborns. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving children with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter E is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for given names: 3.8% of all common first names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters of given names are A and J, while U and X are the least common initials of first names.
With four letters, the name Elya is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, it follows that with 3.8% of all first names starting with an E, this initial letter occurs exactly as often as all 26 letters on average.
If your name is Elya and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Elya, you can simply say:
Elephant
Lion
Yoyo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Elya
Elya
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
E
L
Y
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
E
L
Y
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Elya sounds like this:
