Eglītis
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Eglītis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Uganda than in any other country. Recorded meaning: a surname originating as a patronymic.
- UGUganda≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- LVLatvia≈1 in 3.7K
- FIFinland1 in 119K
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.
- Uganda (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 71 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈23,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uganda, 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 Eglitis in US United States, LV Latvia, GB United Kingdom and 3 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)
a surname originating as a patronymic
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Eglītis 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UG Uganda | #516 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Eglitis | 1 |
| LV Latvia | #206 | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Eglitis | 43 |
| US United States | — | 101 | 1 in 3.3M | 102 | Eglitis | 71 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Eglitis | 35 |
| FI Finland | — | 47 | 1 in 119K | 47 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 36 | 1 in 152K | 36 | Eglitis | 4 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 353K | — | Eglitis | 5 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Viktors Eglītisb. 1877LVLatvian poet (1877-1945)
- Augusts Eglītisb. 1896LVSoviet politician
- Anšlavs Eglītisb. 1906LVLatvian writer (1906–1993)
- Andrejs Eglītisb. 1912LVLatvian writer and poet (1912-2006)
- Visvaldis Eglītisb. 1936LVLatvian basketball player (1936-2014)
- Ilgmārs Eglītisb. 1951LVLatvian astronomer
- Ivars Eglītisb. 1959LVLatvian physician
- Jānis Eglītisb. 1961LVLatvian politician (1961-2013)
- Gatis Eglītisb. 1978LVLatvian politician
- Didzis Eglītisfilm director
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 2 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Eglītis mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname originating as a patronymic Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Eglītis have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Eglītis in Uganda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled eglitis.
- How common is the name Eglītis?
- In the United States, the national register counted 101 people named Eglītis in 2010, about 1 in 3.3 million residents.
- How common is Eglītis compared with other names?
- In Uganda, Eglītis is the 516th most common surname of 6,307 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Eglītis?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/egl%C4%ABtisThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Eglītis” — the 516th most common surname in Uganda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.