Eel
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ael/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Eel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Guatemala than in any other country.
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 20K(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 189K
- UYUruguay≈1 in 520K
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.
- Guatemala (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 17 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
≈860 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guatemala, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Eel 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GT Guatemala | #634 | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Eel | 4 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 189K | — | Eel | 5 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 998K | — | Eel | 17 |
| US United States | — | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 8.5M | listed | Eel | 10 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 779K | — | Eel | 6 |
| UY Uruguay | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 520K | — | Eel | 3 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1 | 1 in 10M | 1 | — | — |
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). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Eel is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Any freshwater fish of the order Anguilliformes, which are elongated and resemble snakes.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In izh, before, in front of (of location)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mop, to know, to have knowledge of
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, adessive singular of esi
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In hrx, plural of Ool
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, tupu, tupunye, kotonye
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #72,273 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Eel?
- A machine transcription gives /ael/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Eel a male or female name?
- Eel is a male 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.
- In which country does Eel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 860 people named Eel in Guatemala, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled eel.
- How common is the name Eel?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 1 people named Eel, about 1 in 10 million residents.
- How common is Eel compared with other names?
- In Guatemala, Eel is the 634th most common given name of 22,774 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Eel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/eelThe 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, “Eel” — the 634th most common given name in Guatemala. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.