Jelai
loc · Latin script
Meaning: a kind of grain plant; Coix lacryma-jobi
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jelai is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 464K(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 515K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 1.2M
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 Jelai 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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 78 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 464K (inferred from the name graph)
≈240 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Elay in PH Philippines, NL Netherlands, MY Malaysia and 1 more.
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)
a kind of grain plant; Coix lacryma-jobi
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jelai 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 464K | — | Elay | 21 |
| BR Brazil | 114as Elay | 1 in 1.9M | 114 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 93as Elay | 1 in 186K | 85 | Elay | 3 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Elay | 9 |
| ES Spain | 22as Elay | 1 in 2.3M | 22 | — | — |
| SG Singapore | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 515K | — | Elay | 5 |
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); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jelai mean, and where does it come from?
- a kind of grain plant; Coix lacryma-jobi Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Jelai have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 236 people named Jelai in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled elay.
- How common is the name Jelai?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 114 people named Elay in 2022, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
What do you want to know about Jelai?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jelaiThe 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, “Jelai”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.