Elara
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A mistress of Zeus
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɛləɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Elara is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 128K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 267K
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 314K
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
- 67 (measured from records)
- 1 in 128K (inferred from the name graph)
682 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
A mistress of Zeus.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Elara, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Elara 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 | 682 | 1 in 488K | 680 | Elara | 67 |
| BR Brazil | 195 | 1 in 1.1M | 195 | Elara | 26 |
| SE Sweden | 80 | 1 in 128K | 80 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 66 | 1 in 758K | 66 | Elara | 16 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 4.5M | — | Elara | 6 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 314K | 6 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 22 | 1 in 267K | 22 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 15 | 1 in 371K | 19 | — | — |
682 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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. 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)
Elara 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 English, satellite of Jupiter
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Latvian, Jupitera pavadonis ("Elara"), vidējais attālums no planētas - 11741000 km, izmēri - 78 km
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
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 42 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 680 | #16,502 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 275 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 195 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 192 | #25,877 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 100 | #22,234 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 80 | #9,876 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 66 | #22,073 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 58 | #45,330 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 49 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 39 | #15,284 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 22 | #4,651 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 19 | #28,096 |
Reference works 1
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
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
- What does the name Elara mean, and where does it come from?
- A mistress of Zeus. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Elara?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛləɹə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Elara a male or female name?
- Elara 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 Elara have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 682 people named Elara, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled elara.
- Where is Elara most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Elara is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 128 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Elara?
- In the United States, the national register counted 682 people named Elara in 2020, about 1 in 488 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Elara?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/elaraThe 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, “Elara”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.