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Around the world, Elah (אלה , Elah , Эла ) is quite a rare mostly feminine, but seldom masculine forename. The given name Elah is habitual in Israel, where it is quite a rare girly name, Indonesia, where it is a rare dominantly feminine, but seldom masculine name, and Kazakhstan, where it is a rare primarily female, but very infrequently boy's name. In absolute terms, the name is most common in Indonesia, Nigeria, and Russia. Much less frequently, Elah is the last name as well as the forename.
Elah is also a popular name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Elah , the biblical person, 1 Kings 16; Ella Lopez , character in Lucifer; Ellochka Shchukina , the fictional character in Ilf and Petrov's novel The Twelve Chairs; Ella du Toit , character in The South African and Ella Dee , the fictional character, Hex, and in many other works.