I usually hear it pronounced as something like "el-eye-us"

Aha! Thanks! And what about the short form of the name?

usually "ee-lie"

Oh sweet, thank ya

I always pronounced it El-lie-ass

Great! Thanks for confirming my long-brewing suspicions

I read that as El-ee-us

English is hard

*huff* oh man xD

There are some Web sites where people have recorded themselves speaking names in their own language. Usually you can search by name, and sometimes also by language or country/nationality.

There are also sites that just have synthesized (computer-generated) pronunciations. These range from very accurate to incredibly wrong. A good way to tell if they are synthesized is to look up names in your own language and listen to them, and see if they sound like a real person, or a computer.

A couple sites I have used, that appear to have recordings of real humans, include:

http://hearnames.com/

http://www.pronouncenames.com/

I hope this helps!

now i'm confused even more xD they all give various results