Popularity of the last name ELIAS / Mexico
Origine of last name
ELIAS : Spanish (Elías); French (also Élias); Greek Catalan Portuguese English Welsh German Dutch Breton Assyrian/Chaldean and Jewish; Hungarian (Éliás); Czech (Eliáš); Slovak (Eliáš and Eliaš): from a personal name taken from the New Testament Greek form (Ēlias) of Hebrew Eliyahu ‘Jehovah is God’ (Anglicized as <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Elijah">Elijah</a> in the Old Testament of the King James Bible). This name was borne by a Biblical prophet but its popularity among Christians in the Middle Ages was largely a result of its adoption by various early saints including a 7th-century bishop of Syracuse and a 9th-century Spanish martyr. In North America this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages e.g. Assyrian/Chaldean Eliya or <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Elia">Elia</a> Croatian and Slovenian Ilijaš or Iljaš. In medieval England the name generally took the form <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Ellis">Ellis</a> but in the 18th and 19th centuries Welsh Nonconformists adopted the form Elias as a patronymic.
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