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Elia

Meaning — A contracted form of Elijah or Elias, from the Hebrew "Eliyahu" meaning "my God is Yahweh". Elia is the Italian and Aramaic form of the name, used across Jewish, Christian, and sometimes Islamic communities as a versatile and elegantly brief rendering of this ancient prophetic name.·Hebrew origin·Male·EH-lee-ah

Elia Elia carries the prophetic intensity of Elijah in a more intimate, lyrical form — a name that suggests the fire of the prophet compressed into a smaller vessel, giving characters named Elia a quality of contained intensity that can suddenly ignite. The name works particularly well for artist or writer characters of passionate conviction.

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