Elhanan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: "Deus é piedoso"; Smyrna
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/əɫheɪnən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Elhanan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- ILIsrael≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 319K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 352K
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.
- Israel (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 53 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈760 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
"Deus é piedoso"; Smyrna
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Elhanan 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 | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Elhanan | 17 |
| US United States | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 4.6M | 5 | Elhanan | 53 |
| DE Germany | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Elhanan | 12 |
| AT Austria | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 319K | — | Elhanan | 10 |
| CL Chile | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | 1 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | listed | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 3 | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 352K | listed | — | — |
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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); the babynamen-king-2020 register; the ee-siseministeerium-registry 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Elhanan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
God is gracious
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
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)
- 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. 1879LTnot in their usual nameJewish-Lithuanian physician and Holocaust victim (1879-1944)
- Elchanan Meirb. 1936ILnot in their usual namefull 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)
Attested in 7 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #27,664 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 3 | #24,700 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1991 | 1 | — |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Elhanan mean, and where does it come from?
- "Deus é piedoso"; Smyrna Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- What are other forms of the name Elhanan?
- In the etymology graph, Elchanan is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Elhanan?
- A machine transcription gives /əɫheɪnən/ (IPA) for Hebrew.
- Is Elhanan a male or female name?
- Elhanan is a male 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 Elhanan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 762 people named Elhanan in Israel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled elhanan.
- How common is the name Elhanan?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3 people named Elhanan in 2026, about 1 in 13 million residents.
What do you want to know about Elhanan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/elhananThe 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, “Elhanan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.