In the entire world, Yelkis (Yelkis 
) is a very rare principally female, but scarcely male given name. The first name Yelkis is characteristic of Latin America and the Caribbean, particularly Nicaragua, where it is a rare primarily female, but very seldom male name, and Panama, where it is a rare female name. Likewise, Yelkis is the last name as well as the forename.