Elley
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɛɫi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Elley is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): scattered in England. see Ely . 2 English: see Ella . Further information: This is the usual spelling of the name in Ireland.
- DKDenmark1 in 37K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 29 (measured from records)
- 1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)
315 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): scattered in England. see Ely . 2 English: see Ella . Further information: This is the usual spelling of the name in Ireland.
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nordic Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Elley 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 | 315 | 1 in 1.1M | 387 | Elley | 29 |
| DK Denmark | 159 | 1 in 37K | 159 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | — | 28 | Elley | 16 |
| MX Mexico | — | — | — | Elley | 5 |
| GT Guatemala | — | — | — | Elley | 1 |
315 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Elley 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 gv, other, another
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Jelgavas novada Elejas pagasta bijušais nosaukums vāciski
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)
- Reed Elleyb. 1945CACanadian politician
- Derek Elleyb. 1955USAmerican film critic for Variety magazine until 2010
- Chris Elleyb. 1977USAmerican film director
- Warwick ElleyCAProfessor of education
- Raina ElleyNZhealthcare researcher at the University of Auckland in New Zealand
- George ElleyAUAustralian rugby league footballer
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)
Attested in 24 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 387 | #56,914 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 358 | #54,020 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 315 | #63,373 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 159 | #3,304 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Elley mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): scattered in England. see Ely . 2 English: see Ella . Further information: This is the usual spelling of the name in Ireland. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Elley?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɛɫi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Elley have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 315 people named Elley, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled elley.
- Where is Elley most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Elley is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 37 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Elley?
- In the United States, the national register counted 315 people named Elley in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Elley?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/elleyThe 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, “Elley”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.