📖 About Eliyas
A variant spelling of Elias/Ilyas meaning 'my God is Yahweh,' bridging Arabic, South Asian, and Western traditions of the prophet Elijah's name.
🔀 Variants & Related Names
⭐ Famous People
- Ilyas Kashmiri — Pakistani militant commander whose name illustrates the widespread use of this name form across South Asian Muslim communities
- Elias Canetti — Bulgarian-born Sephardic Jewish writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981, bearing the closely related Elias form
- Ilyas ibn Yusuf Nizami — 12th-century Persian poet known as Nizami Ganjavi, author of the Khamsa, one of the greatest works of Persian literature
- Elias Koteas — Canadian actor of Greek descent known for films like 'The Thin Red Line' and 'Shutter Island,' bearing the Greek cognate form