Elu
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: the ancestral form of Sinhalese, the Sinhala language, a Middle Indo-Aryan Prakrit of the 3rd century BCE
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/elu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Elu is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bolivia than in any other country.
- BOBolivia≈1 in 49K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain≈1 in 411K
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 435K
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.
- Bolivia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 27 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 49K (inferred from the name graph)
≈240 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Bolivia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
the ancestral form of Sinhalese, the Sinhala language, a Middle Indo-Aryan Prakrit of the 3rd century BCE.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Elu is read(measured from records)
Elu is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish25%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Elu in Spanish.
- Hindi23%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Elu in Hindi.
- English17%
the ancestral form of Sinhalese, the Sinhala language, a Middle Indo-Aryan Prakrit of the 3rd century BCE.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Peewee; full of grace
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- Portuguese7.6%
they, them (singular) (a gender-neutral or genderqueer singular third-person personal pronoun)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Elu 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BO Bolivia | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Elu | 3 |
| ES Spain | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 411K | 145 | Elu | 24 |
| CO Colombia | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 801K | — | Elu | 10 |
| BR Brazil | 52 | 1 in 4.1M | 52 | Elu | 18 |
| US United States | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 7M | 5 | Elu | 27 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 435K | — | Elu | 6 |
| CL Chile | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 539K | 1 | — | 2 |
| UY Uruguay | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 633K | — | Elu | 4 |
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: INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)
Elu is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Lleno de gracia
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In tuw-pro, onion
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Yoruba, alternative form of ìlú (“town, community”)
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.
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 20 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 52 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 28 | #64,892 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 24 | #64,892 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 22 | #47,281 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 5 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2018 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2012 | 1 | — |
| ES Spain | 25,000 Nombres de Bebé (Vázquez de Haro, 2005) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Elu mean, and where does it come from?
- the ancestral form of Sinhalese, the Sinhala language, a Middle Indo-Aryan Prakrit of the 3rd century BCE. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Elu?
- A machine transcription gives /elu/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Elu a male or female name?
- Elu is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Elu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 239 people named Elu in Bolivia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled elu.
- How common is the name Elu?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 52 people named Elu in 2022, about 1 in 4.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Elu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/eluThe 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, “Elu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.