Elci
given name · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Elci is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script.
- BRBrazil1 in 37K◐
- COColombia1 in 198K
- UYUruguay1 in 233K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈5.7K ●
- Sources
- 64 ●
- 1 in 37K ◐
across 3 countries
6.0K records
Official registry-verified
Brazil
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Elçi in TR Türkiye.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 5,742 | 3.4K rec. | 1 in 37K | 7K | Elci | 64 |
| VE Venezuela | 458 | 421 rec. | — | — | Elci | 13 |
| PE Peru | 443 | 388 rec. | — | — | Elci | 14 |
| US United States | 320 | 653 rec. | — | listed | Elci | 52 |
| CO Colombia | 315 | 204 rec. | — | — | Elci | 20 |
| MX Mexico | 224 | 197 rec. | — | — | Elci | 17 |
| AR Argentina | 181 | 139 rec. | — | 3 | Elci | 16 |
| PY Paraguay | 93 | 38 rec. | — | — | Elci | 5 |
| UY Uruguay | 81 | 58 rec. | — | 1 | Elci | 6 |
| SV El Salvador | 70 | 67 rec. | — | — | Elci | 4 |
| HN Honduras | 64 | 64 rec. | — | — | Elci | 3 |
| TR Türkiye | 53 | 63 rec. | — | — | Elçi | 14 |
Roughly 5.7K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 37K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Portuguese93K92%
- English6K6%
- Spanish2K2%
- Indonesian891%
- ptbr531%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 93,211 | 92% |
| English | 5,987 | 6% |
| Spanish | 1,953 | 2% |
| Indonesian | 89 | 1% |
| ptbr | 53 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1930 | 23 |
| 1940 | 229 |
| 1950 | 1,074 |
| 1960 | 2,563 |
| 1970 | 4,284 |
| 1980 | 5,295 |
| 1990 | 5,628 |
| 2000 | 5,708 |
| 2022 | 5,742 |
BR IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) — 9 years between 1930–2022. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Atilla ElçiTRPh.D. Purdue University 1975
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 19 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 7K | #2,697 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 5.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 5.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 5.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 5.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 5.2K | #1,445 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 4.3K | #2,486 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 4.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 2.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 1.8K | #2,521 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 1.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1950 | 1.5K | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 101 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Elci?
- We estimate roughly 5.7 thousand people bear Elci (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
- In which country does Elci have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 5.7 thousand people bear Elci in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled elci.
- Where is Elci most common?
- Elci is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 37 thousand people carrying it.
- Is Elci a male or female name?
- Elci is a female 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.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/elciThe 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, “Elci”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.