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Also Czech: https://cs.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias
Also Romansh:
Source: "Vornamen in der Schweiz. Prénoms en Suisse. I nomi in Svizzera. Prenoms in Svizra" (1993) published by the Association of Swiss registrars
Https://www.portraitarchiv.ch/portrait?page=119
Http://www.annalas.ch/persunas/display/q:Elias
Also Judeo-French: https://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/jewish/levy/elias.html
Also Judeo-Anglo-Norman: http://heraldry.sca.org/names/jewish.html
Also Afrikaans: https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias_P._Nel
Also Flemish: http://www.names.be/jongensnamen.html?met=%C9lias&sort=beldesc
With 46 756 bearers, Elias is the 10th most common masculine given name in Lebanon (2014 Data). Source: https://forebears.io/forenames/elias
Also Languedocian and Gascon: https://ieo-oc.org/spip.php?page=article&id_article=290 --- Source: Institut d'Estudis Occitans
Also Estonian: https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias
In 2018, 2 is the most common age for an American (U.S.) Elias who is registered male with the Social Security Administration. It is the 926th most common male first name for living U.S. citizens.
Also Arabic variant transcription of Ilyas (إلياس).
Somewhat overused in Norway (and perhaps the rest of Scandinavia). Every single 5-year-old seem to have this name.
You see Elias a lot in the New Testament of the Bible in place of Elijah.
Elias is also the form most used in Sweden. We pronounce it as "Eh-LEE-us". Elis (EH-lees) is a Swedish short form of Elias. [noted -ed]
This is also the German version of the name "Elijah". [noted -ed]

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