How do you pronounce Elias?

BethPSU · December 2011

Going off MissKaydee's post below...

My good friend recently had a son and named him Elias. She says "Ee-Lie-Us". I find that I have to really concentrate to say it with the long e for some reason. It comes most naturally to me to say uh-lie-us. Just wondering how everyone says it since he is the first one I've ever met IRL.

lifesaboutmusic · December 2011

E-Lie-us

526SadieSadie · December 2011

Eh-lie-us

jstrat53 · December 2011

My good friend had a baby boy about a week and a half ago and named him Elias. She pronounces it, "uh-lie-us". I actually wanted to pronounce it your way, "Ee-lie-us" when I first saw it written (she texted me the name when he was born).

shouldbworkin · December 2011

Ee-lie-us. But, I'm from Dee-troit, so that might be why.

BethPSU · December 2011

shouldbworkin:
Ee-lie-us. But, I'm from Dee-troit, so that might be why.

heheh this made me laugh! I was just in Duh-troit last week so I guess that's why I want to say it that way:)

scoutkate · December 2011

Uh-LIE-us

HannahO28 · December 2011

scoutkate:
Uh-LIE-us

Betsy's got so much blonde hair now! Super cute.

I say something uh-lie-us

mintea · December 2011

I wouldn't pronounce it either of those ways, I say it so it sounds like you're saying the letters "L E S"

stahlop · December 2011

I've always pronounced it Eh-lee-us, but I have no idea if that's correct.

foxymulder · December 2011

I say eh-lie-es, but my friend is due any day now and they want to call the baby Eli (ee-lie) and have therefore decided that the full first name should be pronounced ee-lie-es. Seems strange to me and it has taken getting used to.

wordslikeswords · December 2011

I've only met one in real life with this name, and he pronounced it e-LEE-us. This is one name I actually like both ways.

kristyb04 · December 2011

I've known a couple here in AZ and they are all Eh-lee-us.

EXL311 · December 2011

I say it like you do with the long E sound. Of course I also say DS's name Elijah E-lijah rather than how other people sometimes say it uh-lijah.

melpoteet · December 2011

Elias is my nephew's middle name. He is 4. I had never heard it before he was born but I love it. I have heard my inlaws pronounce it E-lie-us and eh-lie-us

Daisy41459 · December 2011

I used to pronounce it Ee-Lie-Us, until my cousin named her son Elias, and it has the Greek pronunciation of Eel-ee-Us.

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