Ë'Ll
surname · Latin script
Ë'Ll is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Morocco than in any other country, where it is the 20th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Middle English elle, elne, from Old English eln (“the length of the forearm from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger; a unit of measure”), from Proto-West Germanic *alinu, from Proto-German.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 22K(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 159K
- DKDenmark1 in 217K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Morocco (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 44 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ell in MA Morocco, US United States, DZ Algeria.
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)- Middle Englishelle(measured from records)
- Old Englisheln“the length of the forearm from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger; a unit of measure”(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*alinu(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*alinō(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*Heh₃l-én-eh₂(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European root*Heh₃l-“elbow“elbow, forearm”(measured from records)
From Middle English elle, elne, from Old English eln (“the length of the forearm from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger; a unit of measure”), from Proto-West Germanic *alinu, from Proto-Germanic *alinō, from Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃l-én-eh₂, from *Heh₃l- (“elbow, forearm”). Cognate with Dutch el (“ell”), German Low German Ell (“ell”), German Elle (“ell”), Swedish aln (“cubit; ell”), Icelandic alin (“cubit; ell”), Latin ulna (“forearm”).
Cited for this meaning 2
Where the surname Ë'Ll is found
(measured from records)Ë'Ll 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.
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 Ë'Ll mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English elle, elne, from Old English eln (“the length of the forearm from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger; a unit of measure”), from Proto-West Germanic *alinu, from Proto-German… Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Ë'Ll?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Ë'Ll in Morocco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ell. After it come United States, Brazil, India and Algeria; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Ë'Ll?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,430 people named Ë'Ll in 2010, about 1 in 233 thousand residents.
- How common is Ë'Ll compared with other names?
- In Morocco, Ë'Ll is the 20th most common surname of 211,124 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%AB'llThe 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, “Ë'Ll” — the 20th most common surname in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.