Elchanan
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ɛlxanan/(machine-generated) Polish · model-generated
Elchanan is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.7M(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 5.5M
- ILIsrael≈1 in 2.7Kas אלחנן
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 Elchanan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Israel (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 42 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.7M (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,700 named אלחנן, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled אלחנן in IL Israel, US United States, PL Poland and 1 more and Elhanan in CY Cyprus, NL Netherlands.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Elchanan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | #456 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 120 | אלחנן | 42 |
| US United States | — | 274as Elchonon | 1 in 1.2M | 274 | אלחנן | 39 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 10 | 1 in 1.7M | 10 | Elhanan | 3 |
| PL Poland | — | 7 | 1 in 5.5M | 7 | אלחנן | 2 |
| DE Germany | — | — | — | — | אלחנן | 3 |
| CY Cyprus | — | — | — | — | Elhanan | 4 |
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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Elhanan Rosensteinb. 1796DEGerman rabbi
- Elhanan Leib Lewinskyb. 1857LTRussian Hebrew-language writer and Zionist leader
- Elchonon Wassermanb. 1875LTnot in their usual nameBelarusian Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva (1874–1941)
- Elchanan Elkesb. 1879LTJewish-Lithuanian physician and Holocaust victim (1879-1944)
- Elchanan Meirb. 1936ILfull professor from the Department of Psychological at the Tel Aviv University
- Elhanan Helpmanb. 1946ILIsraeli-American economist
- Elhanan Tannenbaumb. 1946ILIsraeli Defence Forces' Colonel (1946–2024)
- Elhanan Glazerb. 1947ILIsraeli politician
- Elhanan Nirb. 1980ILIsrael Rabbi, songwriter and journalist
- Elhanan Millerb. 1981ILIsraeli teacher and writer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 159 | #43,791 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 10 | #17,921 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 7 | #13,413 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #13,745 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2001 | 6 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 are other forms of the name Elchanan?
- In the etymology graph, Elhanan is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Elchanan?
- In Polish /ɛlxanan/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Elchanan a male or female name?
- Elchanan is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Elchanan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.7 thousand people named אלחנן in Israel, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Elchanan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Elchanan is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 1.7 million people — even though Israel holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Elchanan?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 10 people named Elchanan, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
- How common is Elchanan compared with other names?
- In Israel, Elchanan is the 456th most common given name of 107,303 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Elchanan?
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/elchananThe 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, “Elchanan” — the 456th most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.