Elle
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A diminutive of the female given name Eleanor and other names beginning with El
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɛɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Elle is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In the Netherlands it is the 61st most common given name.
- NLNetherlands1 in 17K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 338as Ellen
- NONorway1 in 464as Ellen
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Elle itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #426 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 580 (measured from records)
- 1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,000,000 named Ellen, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ellen in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines and 6 more, Elen in BR Brazil and Էլեն in AM Armenia.
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)
A diminutive of the female given name Eleanor and other names beginning with El. Also given as a name in its own right.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Elle, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Elle 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈1,000,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Ellen | 57 |
| US United States | #190 | 173,112as Ellen | 1 in 1.9K | 173K | Ellen | 580 |
| BR Brazil | #863 | 61,520as Ellen | 1 in 3.4K | 62K | Elen | 128 |
| GB United Kingdom | #195 | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 14 | Ellen | 296 |
| PH Philippines | #457 | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Ellen | 132 |
| SE Sweden | #141 | 30,207as Ellen | 1 in 338 | 30K | Ellen | 108 |
| FI Finland | — | 13,378as Ellen | 1 in 416 | 24K | Ellen | 48 |
| NO Norway | #114 | 11,778as Ellen | 1 in 464 | 33K | Ellen | 107 |
| DK Denmark | #175 | 11,739as Ellen | 1 in 500 | 12K | Ellen | 126 |
| AM Armenia | #100 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 540 | 298 | Էլեն | 55 |
| NL Netherlands | #61 | 997 | 1 in 17K | 17K | Ellen | 131 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia — Most Frequent Newborn Given Names by Sex, Armenian script, 2008-2020 + 2023. 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)
Elle 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 Swedish, Elle kan i äldre tid ha varit en samisk eller sydsvensk form av → Elin. I dag är det o ftare en kortform av namn som Gabrielle (→ Gabriella) och → Danielle. En känd namn bärare är den amerikanska skådespelerskan Elle Fanning (f. 1998).
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, Berufsname zum Schneider oder Tuchhändler; zu mhd. elne/elle 'Elle'.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, weibl. Vom., Variante von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Estonian, a female given name, short form of Helena (“Helen”) and Eliisabet
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of ele.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Elle Macphersonb. 1964AUAustralian model and actress
- Elle Kennedyb. 1982CACanadian novelist; bestselling author of contemporary romance and romantic suspense
- Elle Loganb. 1987USAmerican rower
- Elle Kingb. 1989USAmerican singer, songwriter, and actress
- Elle Evansb. 1989USAmerican model
- Elle Alexandrab. 1991USAmerican pornographic actress
- Elle Fanningb. 1998USAmerican actress
- Madison Beerb. 1999USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer (born 1999)
- Elle McKinnonb. 2006CACanadian actress
- Elle Grahamb. 2009USAmerican actress
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 65 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 16K | #1,830 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 3.3K | #404 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 2.3K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1K | #1,653 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 997 | #1,293 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 770 | #1,914 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 677 | #2,643 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 668 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 493 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 335 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 321 | #17,651 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 276 | — |
Reference works 4
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 are other forms of the name Elle?
- In the etymology graph, Elizabeth, Lisa and Isabel are forms of the same name in other languages; Nelly, Nellie and Lillia are recorded short or pet forms; it is recorded as a short form of Eleanor and Elnora.
- How do you pronounce Elle?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Elle a male or female name?
- Elle is a female 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.
- Where does the name Elle come from?
- A diminutive of the female given name Eleanor and other names beginning with El. Also given as a name in its own right. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Elle mean?
- Recorded meaning: A diminutive of the female given name Eleanor and other names beginning with El.
- In which country does Elle have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 million people named Ellen in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Elle most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Elle is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 17 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Elle?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 997 people named Elle, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
- How common is Elle compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Elle is the 61st most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/elleThe 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, “Elle” — the 61st most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.