Elpis
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: The goddess and personification of hope
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Elpis is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cyprus than in any other country.
- GRGreece≈1 in 15Kas Elpida(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 2Mas Elpida
- CYCyprus1 in 1.5Kas Ελπιδα
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 Elpis 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.
- Cyprus (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 89 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
823 named Ελπιδα, 2011
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Cyprus, as Ελπιδα
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Elpida in US United States, CY Cyprus, DE Germany and 3 more and Ελπιδα in GR Greece.
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)
The goddess and personification of hope.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Elpis is read(measured from records)
Elpis is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English43%
The goddess and personification of hope.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Greek20%
from elpis 'hope'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
- Spanish11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Elpis in Spanish.
- Indonesian8.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Elpis in Indonesian.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Elpis 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CY Cyprus | #782 | 823as Ελπιδα | 1 in 1.5K | 823 | Elpida | 33 |
| GR Greece | #741 | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 24 | Ελπιδα | 89 |
| US United States | — | 166as Elpida | 1 in 2M | 162 | Elpida | 65 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 659K | — | Elpida | 39 |
| GE Georgia | — | 82as ელპიდა | 1 in 49K | 82 | Elpida | 2 |
| SE Sweden | — | 66as Elpida | 1 in 155K | 66 | Elpida | 7 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 425K | — | Elpida | 7 |
823 people counted by CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census), 2011, counting the spelling ελπιδα. 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: Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Elpis 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 Romanian, < gr. 'EArric-lo speranta". 1. Elpidiia mona. (Sd XIX 62). 2. Cu fon. rus a < e : Alpida f. (Vaslui). 3. Tradus Speranfia, Th ; v. si Nadejde.
as a nameDictionar Onomastic Rominesc
In Latvian, Elpa
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Elpis mean, and where does it come from?
- The goddess and personification of hope. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Elpis a male or female name?
- Elpis 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 Elpis have the most bearers?
- In Cyprus, the national register counted about 823 people named Ελπιδα, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Elpis most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Elpis itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Cyprus's: the national register counts about 1 in 1.5 thousand people named Ελπιδα.
- How common is the name Elpis?
- In Cyprus, the national register counted 823 people named Ελπιδα in 2011, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Elpis compared with other names?
- In Cyprus, Elpis is the 782nd most common given name of 8,840 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Elpis?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/elpisThe 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, “Elpis” — the 782nd most common given name in Cyprus. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.