Elì

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Elì 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.

rarermore common
  • 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 Elì 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)

122,713 people, 2020

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
340 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 751 (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ElìLatin(measured from records)
ΗλιGreek(measured from records)
ელიGeorgian(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)

Derivation of Elì: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Elì
  1. LatinHeli(measured from records)
  2. 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)

Elì 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.

Where Elì is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—122,7131 in 2.7K121KEli340
BR Brazil#67037,5651 in 5.6K44KEli143
NG Nigeria—≈11,000 est.≈1 in 20K—Eli28
PE Peru#483≈8,400 est.≈1 in 3.8K—Eli64
NO Norway—7,2771 in 75123KEli26
SE Sweden—3,902as Elly1 in 2.6K3.9K—14
IL Israel—≈3,600 est.≈1 in 2.4K—Eli47
DK Denmark—1,929as Elly1 in 3K1.9K—1
CR Costa Rica#2087711 in 6.6K771Eli41

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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Elì is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name57 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, Norwegian, German

    Also written Eli, Elí, El-I, Elî, Éli

  • Lao given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, United States, Thailand, Peru

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Eli, Elí, Elï, Ëli, Èlì

  • Finnish given name13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden, Finland, Israel

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Eli, Êlì, Ëlï, Elí, Elî

  • a separate given name13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Norway, Ecuador, India

    Also written Eli, Elí, E̶l̶i̶, Élî, Èlí

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Elì under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Elì 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 Elì a male or female name?
Elì 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 Elì have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 123 thousand people named Elì, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled eli.
Where is Elì most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Elì 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 Elì?
In the United States, the national register counted 122,713 people named Elì in 2020, about 1 in 2.7 thousand residents.
How common is Elì compared with other names?
In Costa Rica, Elì is the 208th most common given name of 15,284 given names recorded there.

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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, “Elì” — the 208th most common given name in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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