Elais
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/əleɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Elais is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 645K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 750K
- UYUruguay≈1 in 1.2M
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- 1 in 645K (inferred from the name graph)
328 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Brazil
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)
Elais 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 328 | 1 in 645K | 328 | Elais | 31 |
| US United States | 155 | 1 in 2.1M | 151 | Elais | 33 |
| AR Argentina | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | 10 | Elais | 20 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | — | Elais | 5 |
| CO Colombia | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 3.8M | — | Elais | 10 |
| UY Uruguay | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | 1 | Elais | 5 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
| LV Latvia | 1 | 1 in 1.9M | 1 | — | — |
328 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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).
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 19 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 328 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 295 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 278 | #17,899 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 277 | #11,235 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 252 | #22,034 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 233 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 151 | #44,535 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 133 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 100 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 72 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 62 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 61 | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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
- How do you pronounce Elais?
- A machine transcription gives /əleɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Elais a male or female name?
- Elais 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 Elais have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 328 people named Elais, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled elais.
- Where is Elais most common?
- Elais is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 645 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Elais?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 328 people named Elais in 2022, about 1 in 645 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Elais?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/elaisThe 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, “Elais”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.