Eĺi

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Eĺi is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Latin Heli, from Hebrew עֵלִי.

  • NONorway1 in 751(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 2.7K
  • ALAlbania1 in 5K

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 Eĺi 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.

United States (measured from records)

122,713 people, 2020

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
475 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 751 (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
EllieLatin(measured from records)
ЕлиCyrillic(measured from records)
엘리Hangul(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ellie in US United States, GB United Kingdom, FI Finland and 1 more, Elly in BR Brazil, NO Norway, NL Netherlands and 1 more and Eli in BG Bulgaria.

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 Eĺi: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Eĺi
  1. LatinHeli(measured from records)
  2. Hebrewעֵלִי(measured from records)

Borrowed from Latin Heli, from Hebrew עֵלִי.

Cited for this meaning 7

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • Wiktionary
  • Biblical Names Compiled Database
  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Eĺi 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 Eĺi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—122,7131 in 2.7K121KEllie475
BR Brazil—37,5651 in 5.6K44KElly67
GB United Kingdom#416≈18,000 est.≈1 in 3.8K534Ellie268
FI Finland—10,819as Elli1 in 51525KEllie15
SE Sweden—7,956as Ellie1 in 1.3K8KEllie36
NO Norway—7,2771 in 75123KElly22
DK Denmark#5382,913as Ellie1 in 2K2.9KElly43
BG Bulgaria#306≈2,500 est.≈1 in 2.6K—Eli71
NL Netherlands#164997as Elle1 in 17K3.8KElly91

122,713 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling eli. 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; ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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); 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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Eĺi 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 Eĺi mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Latin Heli, from Hebrew עֵלִי. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Wiktionary and 5 other sources.
Is Eĺi a male or female name?
Eĺi 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.
In which country does Eĺi have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 123 thousand people named Eĺi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ellie.
Where is Eĺi most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Eĺi is densest in Norway — about 1 in 751 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Eĺi?
In the United States, the national register counted 122,713 people named Eĺi in 2020, about 1 in 2.7 thousand residents.
How common is Eĺi compared with other names?
In the Netherlands, Eĺi is the 164th most common given name of 101,916 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, “Eĺi” — the 164th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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