Ėlī
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ėlī is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Latin Heli, from Hebrew עֵלִי.
- USUnited States1 in 2.7K(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 3.8K
- BRBrazil1 in 5.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ėlī itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 340 (measured from records)
- 1 in 751 (inferred from the name graph)
122,713 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Eli in US United States, BR Brazil, PE Peru 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)
- LatinHeli(measured from records)
- Hebrewעֵלִי(measured from records)
Borrowed from Latin Heli, from Hebrew עֵלִי.
Sources 7
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Wiktionary
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ėlī 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 122,713 | 1 in 2.7K | 121K | Eli | 340 |
| BR Brazil | #670 | 37,565 | 1 in 5.6K | 44K | Eli | 143 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Eli | 28 |
| PE Peru | #483 | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Eli | 64 |
| NO Norway | — | 7,277 | 1 in 751 | 23K | Eli | 26 |
| SE Sweden | — | 3,902as Elly | 1 in 2.6K | 3.9K | — | 14 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Eli | 47 |
| DK Denmark | — | 1,929as Elly | 1 in 3K | 1.9K | — | 1 |
| CR Costa Rica | #208 | 771 | 1 in 6.6K | 771 | Eli | 41 |
122,713 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; 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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ėlī mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Latin Heli, from Hebrew עֵלִי. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Wiktionary and 5 other sources.
- Is Ėlī a male or female name?
- Ėlī 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 Ėlī have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 123 thousand people named Ėlī, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled eli.
- Where is Ėlī most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ėlī is densest in Norway — about 1 in 751 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ėlī?
- In the United States, the national register counted 122,713 people named Ėlī in 2020, about 1 in 2.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Ėlī compared with other names?
- In Costa Rica, Ėlī is the 208th most common given name of 15,284 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C4%97l%C4%ABThe 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, “Ėlī” — the 208th most common given name in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.