How do you pronounce Elias?

jolynn326

Okay so I love the name Elias. Tonight DH said this name and pronounced it completely different than I have been. I have been saying EE-lee-us and DH said Eh-LIE-us. Not sure I wrote that phonetically.

Anyway, I see this name often on here and have a FB friend who named her son this, but I have never heard it said aloud. How do you say it? 

Randa&Jerm

Not sure if its right but I say it as ee-LIE-us.

sleeping5beauty

I've always heard it Eli-us

9yrsLater

I'd say ah-LIE-us. 

EXL311

Randa&Jerm:

Not sure if its right but I say it as ee-LIE-us.

This is how I say it.  I can see pronouncing it uh-lie-us as well.

blu-eyedwife

I pronounce it like your husband

pinksandbermuda

probably EE Lie us

or EL i-us

lar1203

el-IE-us

Bazinga+

Eh LIE us...close to how you'd say Elijah

schnappycat

I say eh-LIE-us, I guess. That's how everyone I knew pronounced Elias Big Boy when I lived in MI. Not that I trust that it was correct, however.

 

HAFranklin

schnappycat:

I say eh-LIE-us, I guess. That's how everyone I knew pronounced Elias Big Boy when I lived in MI. Not that I trust that it was correct, however.

 

I grew up in MI too, but I've only ever heard it pronounced ee-LIE-us. 

Fink

jolynn326:

Okay so I love the name Elias. Tonight DH said this name and pronounced it completely different than I have been. I have been saying EE-lee-us and DH said Eh-LIE-us. Not sure I wrote that phonetically.

Anyway, I see this name often on here and have a FB friend who named her son this, but I have never heard it said aloud. How do you say it? 

Is your DH a hockey fan?  If so, it could explain his different pronunciation.  There is a hockey player on the NJ Devils named Patrik Elias (he's from the Czech Reepublic) and his last name is pronounced very similar to how your DH is apparently saying it.

 

MrsMandaK

9yrsLater:

I'd say ah-LIE-us. 

This.

SrMonclova

Very interesting question! I was always curious on the same...

 From my own research (because I wasam also considering it)

Elias is the 'spanish' version of Elijah.  and in spanish , it is pronounced,

"e -lee-as".  Its nice....

But I'm glad to hear the feedback here because I was curious to how people would pronounce it in 'english'...:)

 

mer313131

I know a little Elias and hear the name pop up often. It's pronounced eh-lee-us.

foxymulder

My friend just named her son this, and they call him Eli, pronounced ee-lie, so they pronounce the full name ee-lie-us. Before, though, I had always said it eh-lie-us.

Daisy41459

I used to pronounce it Eh-lie-us (like the beginning of Elijah), but my cousin's named her son this and they use the Greek pronunciation which is Eel-Ee-Us, so that's how I say it now.