Ëll

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Ëll is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Morocco 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.

rarermore common
  • MAMorocco≈1 in 30K(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). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

1,430 people, 2010

Sources
44 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)

Morocco, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ell in MA Morocco, US United States.

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)

Derivation of Ëll: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Ëll
  1. Middle Englishelle(measured from records)
  2. Old Englisheln“the length of the forearm from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger; a unit of measure”(measured from records)
  3. Proto-West Germanic*alinu(measured from records)
  4. Proto-Germanic*alinō(measured from records)
  5. Proto-Indo-European*Heh₃l-én-eh₂(measured from records)
  6. 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”).

Sources 2

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ëll 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.

Where Ëll is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—1,4301 in 233K1.4KEll44
MA Morocco#20≈1,200 est.≈1 in 30K—Ell20
BR Brazil—1381 in 1.5M138——
IN India—831 in 16M83—2
SE Sweden—641 in 159K64—1
DK Denmark—271 in 217K27——
CH Switzerland—131 in 646K13—2

1,430 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ëll is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname49 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Ell, E'Ll, Éll, Êll, É'Ll

  • Spanish surname36 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Brazil, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ell, Éll, Èll, E'Ll, Êll

  • French surname29 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Morocco, United States, Canada

    Also written Ell, Éll, E'Ll, Êll, Ěll

  • Indonesian surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, Morocco, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Ell, Êll, Éll, Ěll, Ėll

  • a separate surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, India, Canada

    Also written Ell, Ęll, Êll, Ḝḻl, Ěll

  • Hindi surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Morocco

    Also written Ell, Ęll, Ěll, Ėll, Ĕll

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Éll, Ell

13 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Ëll under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ëll 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.
In which country does Ëll have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Ëll, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ell.
How common is the name Ëll?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,430 people named Ëll in 2010, about 1 in 233 thousand residents.
How common is Ëll compared with other names?
In Morocco, Ëll is the 20th most common surname of 211,124 surnames 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, “Ëll” — the 20th most common surname in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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