Ëy
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ëy is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. In Réunion it is the 96th most common surname.
- DEGermany≈1 in 108K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 805K
- RERéunion≈1 in 2.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 156 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈740 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Réunion, 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 Ey in US United States, DE Germany, AU Australia and 3 more and Éy in DZ Algeria.
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)姓 , 见 《 姓 苑 》(9,11,12) 。 居 于 西 野 者 以 为 氏 ,如 东野 之 类 , 见 《 姓 氏 考 略 》(60 ,62) 。 [ ~ 48) 西 aE xibi
Cited for this meaning 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Chinese Surnames Dictionary (Section 1)
- Nordic Names
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ëy 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | — | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Ey | 69 |
| US United States | — | 413 | 1 in 805K | 413 | Ey | 156 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 138K | — | Éy | 6 |
| RE Réunion | #96 | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Ey | 4 |
| IN India | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 4.9M | — | Ey | 26 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 119K | — | Ey | 59 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 97K | — | Ey | 2 |
| WS Samoa | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 55K | register #15 | — | 2 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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
- Is Ëy a male or female name?
- Ëy is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Ëy have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 741 people named Ëy in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ey.
- How common is the name Ëy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 413 people named Ëy in 2010, about 1 in 805 thousand residents.
- How common is Ëy compared with other names?
- In Réunion, Ëy is the 96th most common surname of 3,012 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ëy?
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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%AByThe 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, “Ëy” — the 96th most common surname in Réunion. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.