Elwis
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/elwis/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Elwis is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Lincs. see Elwes .
- SESweden1 in 329K(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 351K
- GYGuyana1 in 375K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 50 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 180K (inferred from the name graph)
≈160 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Venezuela, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Main GB Location (1881): Lincs. see Elwes .
Cited for this meaning 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nordic Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Elwis 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.
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); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 74 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 73 | #50,911 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 62 | #25,361 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 48 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 44 | #3,387 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 43 | #3,689 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 31 | #18,796 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 29 | #54,096 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 26 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 26 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 22 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 1977 | 20 | #977 |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Elwis mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Lincs. see Elwes . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Elwis?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /elwis/; in Portuguese /ɛlwiʃ/; in Indonesian /əlwis/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Elwis a male or female name?
- Elwis 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 Elwis have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 159 people named Elwis in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled elwis.
- How common is the name Elwis?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 74 people named Elwis in 2022, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.
What do you want to know about Elwis?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/elwisThe 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, “Elwis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.