Elvis
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Of obscure derivation, made famous by the American rock singer Elvis Presley (1935-77)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/elβis/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Elvis is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country. In the Dominican Republic it is the 62nd most common given name.
- PEPeru≈1 in 935(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 1.1K
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 1.2K
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.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 315 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 935 (inferred from the name graph)
≈34,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Of obscure derivation, made famous by the American rock singer Elvis Presley (1935-77). It may bea transferred use of a surname, or it may have been made up, but it was certainly not chosen for the singer in anticipation of a career in show business, for his father’s name was Vernon Elvis Presley. A shadowy Irish St
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Elvis, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Elvis 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | #223 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 935 | — | Elvis | 86 |
| VE Venezuela | #258 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Elvis | 75 |
| BR Brazil | — | 23,842 | 1 in 8.9K | 25K | Elvis | 134 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Elvis | 19 |
| US United States | — | 18,506 | 1 in 18K | 18K | Elvis | 315 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 16,733 | 1 in 1K | 17K | Elvis | 45 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #62 | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Elvis | 59 |
| AL Albania | — | 2,232 | 1 in 1.4K | 2.2K | — | — |
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; INEC — civil registry names; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)
Elvis is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, männl. Vom. angloamerikanischen Ur sprungs, dessen Herkunft und Bedeutung unklar sind. Der Name wurde in Deutschland durch den amerikanischen Rocksänger und
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
[Ignoto]
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In Cebuano, Elvis Presley
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Vīrieša vārds
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)
- Elvis Aaron Presleyb. 1935USAmerican singer and actor (1935–1977)
- Elvis Costellob. 1954GBEnglish singer-songwriter (born 1954)
- Elvis Mitchellb. 1958USAmerican film critic
- Elvis Tsuib. 1961CNChinese actor
- Elvis Nolascob. 1968USAmerican actor
- Elvis Stojkob. 1972CACanadian figure skater
- Elvis Perkinsb. 1976USAmerican musician
- Roméo Elvisb. 1992BEBelgian rapper
- Elvis Manub. 1993NLDutch association football player
- Elvis Rexhbeçajb. 1997DEGerman 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)
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 116 sources across 64 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 25K | #1,206 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 24K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 24K | #946 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 18K | #1,679 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 17K | #137 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 2.2K | #165 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 339 | #1,679 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 229 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 145 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 136 | #946 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 94 | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- Is Elvis a male or female name?
- Elvis 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.
- What does the name Elvis mean, and where does it come from?
- Of obscure derivation, made famous by the American rock singer Elvis Presley (1935-77). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Elvis?
- A machine transcription gives /elβis/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Elvis have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 34 thousand people named Elvis in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled elvis.
- How common is the name Elvis?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 23,842 people named Elvis in 2022, about 1 in 8.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Elvis compared with other names?
- In Peru, Elvis is the 223rd most common given name of 254,284 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Elvis?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/elvisThe 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, “Elvis” — the 223rd most common given name in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.