Élg

surname · Latin script

Élg is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Norse elgr, from Proto-Germanic *elh-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁el- (“red, brown”). Akin to English elk.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 11K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 15K
  • NONorway1 in 171K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Sweden (measured from records)

676 people

Sources
47 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Elg in SE Sweden, US United States.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Élg: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Élg
  1. Old Norseelgr(measured from records)
  2. Proto-Germanic*elh-(measured from records)
  3. Proto-Indo-European*h₁el-“red“red, brown”(measured from records)

From Old Norse elgr, from Proto-Germanic *elh-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁el- (“red, brown”). Akin to English elk.

Sources 3

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Élg counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Élg is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden6761 in 15K676Elg2
FI Finland4991 in 11K499—2
US United States2911 in 1.1M312Elg6
NO Norway321 in 171K32——
DK Denmark171 in 345K17——

676 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Élg under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Élg mean, and where does it come from?
From Old Norse elgr, from Proto-Germanic *elh-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁el- (“red, brown”). Akin to English elk. Recorded by Wiktionary and Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972) and 1 other source.
In which country does Élg have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 676 people named Élg, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled elg.
Where is Élg most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Élg is densest in Finland — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Élg?
In Sweden, the national register counted 676 people named Élg, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.

What do you want to know about Élg?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A9lg

The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Élg”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

See how Élg parses inside a full name →