Elga
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Forme courte germanique, souvent liée à Helga/Élga; sens « sainte, sacrée »
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/elɡa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Elga is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 38K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 185K
- USUnited States1 in 579K
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 Elga 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 103 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
1,146 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Forme courte germanique, souvent liée à Helga/Élga; sens « sainte, sacrée ».
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Elga 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 | 1,146 | 1 in 185K | 1.6K | Elga | 55 |
| IT Italy | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 59K | 1 | Elga | 17 |
| PE Peru | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Elga | 30 |
| LV Latvia | 797 | 1 in 2.4K | 797 | Elga | 9 |
| US United States | 575 | 1 in 579K | 515 | Elga | 97 |
| GE Georgia | 220as ელგა | 1 in 18K | 220 | Elga | 10 |
| NI Nicaragua | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Elga | 5 |
| AL Albania | 61 | 1 in 50K | 61 | — | — |
1,146 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)
Elga is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, in Deutschland seit dem 20. Jh. vorkom mender weibl. Vom., nordische Nebenform und italienische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
La santa
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In German, initialism of Elektronische Gesundheitsakte (electronic health records)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, "(V), brazado" A Apend .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Anna Elga Augusta Betzonichb. 1859DKactress (1859-1936)
- Elga Brinkb. 1895DEGerman actress (1895-1985)
- Elga Olga Svendsenb. 1906DKactress (1906–1992)
- Elga Mark-Kurikb. 1928EEEstonian geologist and paleontologist (1928-2016)
- Elga Andersenb. 1935DEGerman actress and singer (1935–1994)
- Elga Vadetskayab. 1936RUSoviet and Russian archaeologist (1936–2018)
- Elga Sorbasb. 1945DEGerman actress (1945-2018)
- Elga Kampfhenkelb. 1945DEGerman politician (1945–2021)
- Elga L. Jefferiesb. 1946USAmerican politician
- Helga Seppb. 1972RUnot in their usual nameRussian psychologist
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)
Attested in 49 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 1.6K | #3,269 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.6K | #6,878 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 1.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.1K | #7,545 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 1.1K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 797 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 790 | #483 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 515 | #18,671 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 61 | #3,803 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 60 | #18,671 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 50 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1982 | 5 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 does the name Elga mean?
- Recorded meaning: Forme courte germanique, souvent liée à Helga/Élga; sens « sainte, sacrée ».
- How do you pronounce Elga?
- A machine transcription gives /elɡa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Elga a male or female name?
- Elga 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 Elga have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Elga, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled elga.
- Where is Elga most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Elga is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 2.4 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Elga?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,146 people named Elga in 2022, about 1 in 185 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Elga?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/elgaThe 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, “Elga”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.