Elie
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Elie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country, where it is the 79th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Hébreu Eliyahu, « mon Dieu est Yahvé »; fête du prophète Élie le 20 juillet.
- LBLebanon≈1 in 557(inferred from the name graph)
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 2.1K
- FRFrance≈1 in 4.1K
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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 340 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 557 (inferred from the name graph)
≈49,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Lebanon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Hébreu Eliyahu, « mon Dieu est Yahvé »; fête du prophète Élie le 20 juillet.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Elie 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #79 | ≈49,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 1 | Elie | 27 |
| FR France | #432 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | 45K | Elie | 340 |
| CM Cameroon | #191 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Elie | 35 |
| CN China | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Elie | 14 |
| LB Lebanon | #102 | ≈9,800 est. | ≈1 in 557 | — | Elie | 98 |
| US United States | — | 4,034 | 1 in 82K | 3.4K | Elie | 277 |
| CY Cyprus | #968 | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Elie | 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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Elie is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Origine hébraïque, signifie « mon maître est Dieu ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Hebreu, de Eliyahu, «Mon Dieu est YHWH».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In Latin, Eliahu; Algeria
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In French, From Hebrew Eliyyahu, 'my God is Yahweh'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In umb, interrog., who
as a wordVocabulary of the Umbundu Language
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)
- Eli Whitneyb. 1765USnot in their usual nameAmerican inventor (1765-1825)
- Eli Wallachb. 1915USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (1915–2014)
- Eli Cohenb. 1924EGnot in their usual nameIsraeli spy (1924–1965)
- Eugene Garfieldb. 1925USnot in their usual nameAmerican information and library scientist (1925–2017)
- Gil Kaneb. 1926USnot in their usual nameAmerican comic book artist (1926–2000)
- Elie Wieselb. 1928USRomanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor (1928-2016)
- Elie Samahab. 1955LBAmerican film producer
- Eli Rothb. 1972USnot in their usual nameAmerican filmmaker and actor
- Eli Manningb. 1981USnot in their usual nameAmerican football player (born 1981)
- Ben Rappaportb. 1986USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
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 80 sources across 44 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 45K | #242 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.4K | #4,562 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 820 | #781 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 633 | #4,562 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 32 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 10 | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- Is Elie a male or female name?
- Elie 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.
- What does the name Elie mean?
- Recorded meaning: Hébreu Eliyahu, « mon Dieu est Yahvé »; fête du prophète Élie le 20 juillet.
- In which country does Elie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 49 thousand people named Elie in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled elie.
- How common is the name Elie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,034 people named Elie in 2020, about 1 in 82 thousand residents.
- How common is Elie compared with other names?
- In Congo - Kinshasa, Elie is the 79th most common given name of 20,652 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, “Elie” — the 79th most common given name in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.