Ellias is a variant of Elias, from Greek and Hebrew forms of Elijah, meaning "my God is Yahweh."
Ellias is a variant spelling of Elias, the Greek and Latin rendering of the Hebrew Elijah (אֵלִיָּהוּ, Eliyahu), meaning "my God is Yahweh" — a declaration of faith compressed into a name. The prophet Elijah is among the most electrifying figures in the Hebrew Bible: the Tishbite who challenged the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel, who heard God not in wind or earthquake or fire but in a still small voice, and who was taken up to heaven in a chariot of fire without tasting death.
His story in 1 Kings is one of the Bible's great dramatic narratives, and his return is prophesied in Malachi as heralding the messianic age — a prophecy that threads directly into New Testament identification of John the Baptist as his successor. Elias traveled through Greek and Latin into every major European language, producing Elijah (English), Élie (French), Elías (Spanish), Elia (Italian), and Ilya (Russian/Slavic). The double-L in Ellias is a modern orthographic flourish that gives the name visual weight and individuality while preserving its ancient phonetics entirely.
Notable bearers include Elias Howe, inventor of the sewing machine, and Elias Canetti, the Nobel Prize-winning Bulgarian-British author of Crowds and Power. The Ellias spelling positions the name between tradition and the contemporary taste for distinctive orthography, honoring millennia of prophetic heritage while signaling a parent's desire to give a classic name its own particular form.