Êlÿ
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Êlÿ is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old English Ēlīg, of uncertain origin.
- BOBolivia≈1 in 2Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 5K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 228 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈23,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bolivia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ely in BR Brazil, MX Mexico, VE Venezuela and 4 more.
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)From Old English Ēlīg, of uncertain origin.
Cited for this meaning 7
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Êlÿ 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Ely | 53 |
| MX Mexico | — | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Ely | 104 |
| BR Brazil | — | 6,314 | 1 in 34K | 6.3K | Ely | 117 |
| BO Bolivia | #933 | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Ely | 26 |
| VE Venezuela | #683 | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Ely | 40 |
| EC Ecuador | — | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | 17 | Ely | 29 |
| HN Honduras | #314 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Ely | 26 |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024). 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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Êlÿ mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old English Ēlīg, of uncertain origin. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 5 other sources.
- Is Êlÿ a male or female name?
- Êlÿ is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Êlÿ?
- Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Êlÿ in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ely. After it come Mexico, Brazil, Bolivia and Venezuela; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Êlÿ?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 6,314 people named Êlÿ in 2022, about 1 in 34 thousand residents.
- How common is Êlÿ compared with other names?
- In Honduras, Êlÿ is the 314th most common given name of 23,588 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%AAl%C3%BFThe 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, “Êlÿ” — the 314th most common given name in Honduras. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.