Elton
given name · Latin script
Meaning: ‘person from Elton’, various English places; mainly ‘Elli’s or Ella’s farmstead’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Elton is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Mozambique it is the 29th most common given name.
- BRBrazil1 in 3.3K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 32K
- MZMozambique≈1 in 491
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 214 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 491 (inferred from the name graph)
≈97,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Mozambique, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘person from Elton’, various English places; mainly ‘Elli’s or Ella’s farmstead’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Elton 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈97,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Elton | 20 |
| BR Brazil | #432 | 65,120 | 1 in 3.3K | 72K | Elton | 179 |
| MZ Mozambique | #29 | ≈61,000 est. | ≈1 in 491 | — | Elton | 28 |
| US United States | — | 10,295 | 1 in 32K | 10K | Elton | 214 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | — | Elton | 24 |
| SE Sweden | — | 5,622 | 1 in 1.8K | 5.6K | — | 16 |
| AL Albania | — | 3,723 | 1 in 826 | 3.7K | — | — |
| GY Guyana | — | 251 | 1 in 3K | 251 | — | — |
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); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Elton 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 English, from Elton (Berkshire, Cheshire, Derbyshire, Durham, Herefordshire, Huntingdonshire, Lancashire, Nottinghamshire); first attested Thomas de Eleton 1230 P (Berks)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
Transferred use of the surname, in origin a local name from any of numerous places in England so called (mostly from the Old English masculine personal name Ella + Old English tan ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’). In England it is largely associated with the singer-songwriter Elton John; born Reginald Dwight, he adopted the given name by which he is famous in honour of the saxophonist Elton Dean.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, A male given name from Old English.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Old English; the old town
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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)
- Elton Mayob. 1880AUAustralian psychologist and sociologist
- Douglas Fairbanksb. 1883USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor, screenwriter, director, and producer (1883–1939)
- John Le Mesurierb. 1912GBnot in their usual nameBritish actor (1912–1983)
- Elton Hayesb. 1915GBEnglish actor and musician (1915-2001)
- Ken Keseyb. 1935USnot in their usual nameAmerican novelist (1935–2001)
- Elton Deanb. 1945GBBritish saxophonist (1945–2006)
- Elton Johnb. 1947GBBritish singer, songwriter and musician (born 1947)
- Elton Brandb. 1979USAmerican basketball player (born 1979)
- Élton Rodrigues Brandãob. 1985BRBrazilian association football player
- Elton Acolatseb. 1995NLDutch 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 86 sources across 49 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 72K | #608 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 65K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 65K | #470 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 10K | #2,418 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 5.6K | #572 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 3.7K | #57 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 3.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 575 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 251 | #351 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 237 | #470 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 74 | #2,418 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 60 | — |
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
- Wikipedia surname 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 Elton mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘person from Elton’, various English places; mainly ‘Elli’s or Ella’s farmstead’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Is Elton a male or female name?
- Elton 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 Elton have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 97 thousand people named Elton in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled elton.
- How common is the name Elton?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 65,120 people named Elton in 2022, about 1 in 3.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Elton compared with other names?
- In Mozambique, Elton is the 29th most common given name of 1,034 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Elton?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/eltonThe 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, “Elton” — the 29th most common given name in Mozambique. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.