Girl · French (from Alodia, perhaps Gothic) · International · Christian
Elodie
ElodieSay it EL-oh-dee
- Meaning today
- Foreign riches, marsh flower
- In the dictionaries
- No dictionary meaning confirmed for the name itself
- Say it
- EL-oh-dee
- Other spellings
- Élodie, Elody, Alodia
Elodie
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Elodie meaning
Elodie is an international and Christian girl's name of French origin (from Alodia, perhaps Gothic).
Meaning today
Foreign riches, marsh flower
In the dictionaries
We haven't confirmed a dictionary meaning for the name itself. The meaning above is how families commonly use it.
Elodie, written Élodie in French, is the French form of Alodia, the name of a young Christian martyr who was killed with her sister Nunilo in ninth-century Spain and is venerated as a saint. Where Alodia comes from is not clear. It may be a Gothic name, and some scholars split it into a first part meaning "other" or "all" and a second part meaning "wealth"; this is the source of the popular meaning "foreign riches", but we could not confirm it in a dictionary. The other popular meaning, "marsh flower", comes from a Greek word for marshy and is a folk explanation. It is pronounced EL-oh-dee.
References: Wikipedia, Élodie · Wikipedia, Nunilo and Alodia
Famous namesakes
- Saint Alodia, ninth-century Spanish martyr
Popularity abroad
- #310 United States, girls 2025 (up 62 from 372 in 2024)
US Social Security Administration - #49 England and Wales, girls 2025
Office for National Statistics
Official birth registrations. India publishes no national name statistics.
Spellings
Elodie · Élodie · Elody · Alodia