Elimelech
surname · Latin script
Meaning: His name serves as a theological statement ('My God is King') within the narrative, contrasting with the period of the Judges when 'there was no king in Israel'
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Elimelech is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 422K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 2.7M
- CZCzechia1 in 5.4M
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 Elimelech 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
- 86 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 168K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400 named אלימלך, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled אלימלך in IL Israel, PL Poland, US United States and 1 more.
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)His name serves as a theological statement ('My God is King') within the narrative, contrasting with the period of the Judges when 'there was no king in Israel'.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Elimelech 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 | #656 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | 4.2K | אלימלך | 73 |
| US United States | — | 789 | 1 in 422K | 785 | אלימלך | 86 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Elimelech | 7 |
| PL Poland | — | 14 | 1 in 2.7M | 14 | אלימלך | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 8M | — | אלימלך | 11 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 168K | — | Elimelech | 2 |
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"); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)Elimelech is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
My God is King
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
In English, Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In German, männl. Vom. bibHscher Herkunft (hebr. ’ ëlï melek »mein Gott ist König«), im
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)- Dror Elimelechb. 1956ILIsraeli poet, musician and psychiatrist
- Israel Elimelechb. 1960ILIsraeli basketball player (born 1960)
- Stav Elimelechb. 1969ILIsraeli footballer
- Shavit Elimelechb. 1971ILIsraeli footballer
- Sharon Elimelechb. 1971ILIsraeli dub actor
- Anat Elimelechb. 1974ILmodel
- Ohad Elimelechb. 1975ILmultifaceted Israeli artist, director, editor, photographer, animator, designer, lecturer, and graphic designer
- Menachem Elimelechb. 2000USAmerican engineer
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)Evidence
(measured from records)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #196,296 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #257,354 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 does the name Elimelech mean, and where does it come from?
- His name serves as a theological statement ('My God is King') within the narrative, contrasting with the period of the Judges when 'there was no king in Israel'. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- In which country does Elimelech have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named אלימלך in Israel, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Elimelech?
- In the United States, the national register counted 789 people named Elimelech in 2020, about 1 in 422 thousand residents.
- How common is Elimelech compared with other names?
- In Israel, Elimelech is the 656th most common given name of 107,303 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/elimelechThe 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, “Elimelech” — the 656th most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.