Elkín
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Elkín is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): N Midlands: esp. Staffs;. relationship name from the personal name Elikin, a pet form of Elias or of the female name Ela (Ellen).
- 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)
Main GB Location (1881): N Midlands: esp. Staffs;. relationship name from the personal name Elikin, a pet form of Elias or of the female name Ela (Ellen).
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Elkín 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Elkín mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): N Midlands: esp. Staffs;. relationship name from the personal name Elikin, a pet form of Elias or of the female name Ela (Ellen). Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Is Elkín a male or female name?
- Elkín 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 Elkín have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 48 thousand people named Elkín in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ëlkïn.
- How common is the name Elkín?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 9,970 people named Elkín 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/elk%C3%ADnThe 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, “Elkín”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.