Elay
given name · Azerbaijani · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Elay is a given name, most frequently recorded in Azerbaijan. It appears chiefly in Azerbaijani and English, written in the Latin script.
- AZAzerbaijan1 in 1.9K◐
- NLNetherlands1 in 203K
- SESweden1 in 237K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈586 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 27 ●
- 1 in 203K ◐
across 10 countries
recorded for this name
592 records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Елай in KZ Kazakhstan, UA Ukraine.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AZ Azerbaijan | #268 | 2,373 | 34 rec. | — | 1.8K | Elay | 8 |
| BR Brazil | — | 186△ | 21 rec. | 1 in 1.1M | 186 | Elay | 21 |
| US United States | — | 174 | 115 rec. | 1 in 1.9M | 174 | Elay | 27 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 85△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 203K | 85 | — | 1 |
| MX Mexico | — | 74 | 43 rec. | — | 2 | Elay | 19 |
| PH Philippines | — | 67 | 110 rec. | — | — | Elay | 9 |
| AR Argentina | — | 59 | 42 rec. | — | 5 | Elay | 11 |
| ES Spain | — | 56△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 893K | 56 | Elay | 3 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 48 | 45 rec. | — | — | Elay | 7 |
| SE Sweden | — | 43 | — | 1 in 237K | 43 | — | — |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | 42 | 2 rec. | — | — | Elay | 2 |
| RU Russia | — | 21 | 12 rec. | — | — | Elay | 15 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Azerbaijani2.4K40%
- English70212%
- Portuguese65711%
- Turkish64011%
- Spanish4477%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Azerbaijani | 2,372 | 40% |
| English | 702 | 12% |
| Portuguese | 657 | 11% |
| Turkish | 640 | 11% |
| Spanish | 447 | 7% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Elay is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In dra-sdo-pro, leaf
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2007 | 6 |
| 2012 | 6 |
| 2014 | 10 |
| 2018 | 7 |
| 2019 | 5 |
| 2020 | 9 |
| 2021 | 7 |
| 2023 | 10 |
| 2025 | 9 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 9 years between 2007–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Evidence●
Attested in 24 sources across 16 countries.
Reference works 1
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 92 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Elay?
- We estimate roughly 586 people bear Elay (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Elay have the most bearers?
- Elay is most frequently recorded in Azerbaijan, where it is most often spelled elay.
- How common is Elay compared with other names?
- In Azerbaijan, Elay is the 268th most common given name of 28,867 given names recorded there.
- Is Elay a male or female name?
- Elay is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/elayThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Elay” — the 268th most common given name in Azerbaijan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.