Elkin
loc · Latin script
Meaning: (i) ‘Little Elias’; (ii) ‘son of Elke’, a Yiddish female personal name
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Elkin is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- COColombia≈1 in 1K(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 1.7K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 29K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 169 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈48,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ëlkïn in CO Colombia.
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)
(i) ‘Little Elias’; (ii) ‘son of Elke’, a Yiddish female personal name
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Elkin 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | ≈48,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 39 | Ëlkïn | 132 |
| EC Ecuador | 9,970 | 1 in 1.7K | 10K | — | 26 |
| US United States | 975 | 1 in 341K | 3.6K | — | 169 |
| VE Venezuela | 884 | 1 in 32K | 884 | — | 23 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 31K | 5 | — | 1 |
| CR Costa Rica | 175 | 1 in 29K | 175 | — | 15 |
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: INEC — civil registry names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; the co-datosgov-candidates register; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. 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)
Elkin is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, diminutive of Elie (Elias) or of Ela (Ellen); first attested Elekin 1279 RH (O).
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, town, NC; pers. name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- William Lewis Elkinb. 1855USAmerican astronomer (1855-1933)
- Adolphus Peter Elkinb. 1891AUAustralian anthropologist (1891–1979)
- Stanley Elkinb. 1930USNovelist, essayist, professor (1930–1995)
- Elkin Díazb. 1965COColombian actor
- Ze'ev Elkinb. 1971ILIsraeli politician
- Elkin Murillob. 1977COColombian footballer
- Elkin Sotob. 1980COColombian footballer
- Janina Elkinb. 1982DEGerman actress
- Oleg Yolkinb. 1986RUnot in their usual nameRussian footballer
- Elkin Blancob. 1989COColombian footballer
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 48 sources across 27 countries.
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Elkin mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) ‘Little Elias’; (ii) ‘son of Elke’, a Yiddish female personal name Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Elkin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 48 thousand people named Elkin in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ëlkïn.
- How common is the name Elkin?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 9,970 people named Elkin in 2024, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/elkinThe 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, “Elkin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.