Elai
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Elai is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.6M(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 237K
- ILIsrael≈1 in 334K
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)
- Sources
- 74 (measured from records)
- 1 in 237K (inferred from the name graph)
203 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Elai 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 203 | 1 in 1.6M | 174 | Elai | 74 |
| BR Brazil | 186 | 1 in 1.1M | 186 | — | — |
| PH Philippines | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Elai | 20 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Elai | 7 |
| ES Spain | 56 | 1 in 893K | 56 | — | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | 43 | 1 in 402K | 43 | — | 3 |
| SE Sweden | 43 | 1 in 237K | 43 | — | 1 |
| IL Israel | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 334K | — | Elai | 16 |
| SG Singapore | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 700K | — | Elai | 4 |
| DK Denmark | 9 | 1 in 652K | 9 | — | — |
203 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Elai is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Basque, alternative form of enara
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Welsh, inflection of mynd:
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 32 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 41 | #120,411 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Elai a male or female name?
- Elai 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 Elai have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 203 people named Elai, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled elai.
- Where is Elai most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Elai is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 237 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Elai?
- In the United States, the national register counted 203 people named Elai in 2020, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/elaiThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Elai”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.