Êĺ
surname · Latin script
Êĺ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Syria than in any other country. In Western Sahara it is the 9th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Possibly from an Uyghur word meaning "stem".
- SYSyria≈1 in 49(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden≈1 in 3K
- LBLebanon≈1 in 3.1K
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.
- Syria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 343 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 49 (inferred from the name graph)
≈500,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Syria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled El in MA Morocco, DZ Algeria, SY Syria and 1 more, El- in NL Netherlands and Él in EH Western Sahara.
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)Possibly from an Uyghur word meaning "stem".
Cited for this meaning 3
- Russian Names
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Êĺ 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY Syria | — | ≈500,000 est. | ≈1 in 49 | — | El | 26 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 776 | 179 | El- | 109 |
| MA Morocco | #15 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | El | 196 |
| DZ Algeria | #118 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | El | 82 |
| SE Sweden | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 3K | 652 | — | 70 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | El | 122 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,683 | 1 in 27K | 1.7K | — | 2 |
| EH Western Sahara | #9 | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Él | 8 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017). 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 Êĺ mean, and where does it come from?
- Possibly from an Uyghur word meaning "stem". Recorded by Russian Names and 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and 1 other source.
- In which country does Êĺ have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 503 thousand people named Êĺ in Syria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled el.
- How common is the name Êĺ?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 1,683 people named Êĺ, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
- How common is Êĺ compared with other names?
- In Western Sahara, Êĺ is the 9th most common surname of 38 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Êĺ” — the 9th most common surname in Western Sahara. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.