Eľļ
surname · Latin script
Eľļ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English elle, elne, from Old English eln (“the length of the forearm from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger; a unit of measure”), from Proto-West Germanic *alinu, from Proto-German.
- SESweden1 in 159K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 217K
- USUnited States1 in 233K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 40 (measured from records)
- 1 in 159K (inferred from the name graph)
1,430 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ell in US United States, BR Brazil.
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)
- Middle Englishelle(measured from records)
- Old Englisheln“the length of the forearm from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger; a unit of measure”(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*alinu(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*alinō(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*Heh₃l-én-eh₂(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European root*Heh₃l-“elbow“elbow, forearm”(measured from records)
From Middle English elle, elne, from Old English eln (“the length of the forearm from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger; a unit of measure”), from Proto-West Germanic *alinu, from Proto-Germanic *alinō, from Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃l-én-eh₂, from *Heh₃l- (“elbow, forearm”). Cognate with Dutch el (“ell”), German Low German Ell (“ell”), German Elle (“ell”), Swedish aln (“cubit; ell”), Icelandic alin (“cubit; ell”), Latin ulna (“forearm”).
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Where in the world(measured from records)
Eľļ 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 | 1,430 | 1 in 233K | 1.4K | Ell | 40 |
| BR Brazil | 138 | 1 in 1.5M | 138 | Ell | 30 |
| IN India | 83 | 1 in 16M | 83 | — | 4 |
| SE Sweden | 64 | 1 in 159K | 64 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | 27 | 1 in 217K | 27 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 13 | 1 in 646K | 13 | — | 1 |
1,430 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 Eľļ mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English elle, elne, from Old English eln (“the length of the forearm from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger; a unit of measure”), from Proto-West Germanic *alinu, from Proto-German… Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- In which country does Eľļ have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Eľļ, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ell.
- Where is Eľļ most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Eľļ is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 159 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Eľļ?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,430 people named Eľļ in 2010, about 1 in 233 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/e%C4%BE%C4%BCThe 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, “Eľļ”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.