Elli
given name · Finnish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Elli is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Finnish and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a diminutive of the female given name Elisabeth.
- FIFinland1 in 515◐
- NONorway1 in 751
- IEIreland1 in 992
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈235K ●
- 4 ●
- Sources
- 423 ●
- 1 in 515 ◐
across 14 countries
recorded for this name
274K records
Official registry-verified
Finland
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Ellie in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 9 more, Elly in BR Brazil, NL Netherlands, DK Denmark and 5 more, Eli in BG Bulgaria, HR Croatia and Элли in RU Russia.
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●
a diminutive of the female given name Elisabeth
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 24 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 120,639 | 157K rec. | 1 in 2.8K | 121K | Ellie | 423 |
| GB United Kingdom | #404 | 66,804 | 31K rec. | — | 534 | Ellie | 213 |
| AU Australia | #361 | 52,769 | 27K rec. | — | 482 | Ellie | 191 |
| FR France | — | 44,770△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 1.5K | 45K | — | 2 |
| BR Brazil | — | 37,565△ | 1.1K rec. | 1 in 5.6K | 44K | Elly | 70 |
| CA Canada | #617 | 15,258 | 4.7K rec. | — | 102 | Ellie | 134 |
| FI Finland | #194 | 10,819△ | 494 rec. | 1 in 515 | 25K | Elli | 40 |
| IE Ireland | #144 | 9,398 | 679 rec. | — | 313 | Ellie | 69 |
| SE Sweden | — | 7,956△ | 773 rec. | 1 in 1.3K | 8K | Elli | 38 |
| NO Norway | #503 | 7,277△ | 174 rec. | 1 in 751 | 23K | Ellie | 18 |
| DE Germany | — | 5,923 | 5.2K rec. | — | 1 | Elly | 89 |
| PH Philippines | — | 4,820 | 3.3K rec. | — | — | Elly | 55 |
Roughly 121K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 2.8K). 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●
- Finnish88K60%
- German18K12%
- English14K9%
- Portuguese9.9K7%
- Indonesian2.6K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Finnish | 87,693 | 60% |
| German | 18,121 | 12% |
| English | 13,504 | 9% |
| Portuguese | 9,874 | 7% |
| Indonesian | 2,619 | 2% |
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●
Elli is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Finnish, woman
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, Elli är en finsk form av → Helena (med varianter) men kan också vara en smekform till → Ellen. Se även → Ellie (Elly). I den finlandssvenska almanackan 11 juli.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In English, Variant of Ailbhe (see Alby).
as a nameIrish first names
In Russian, 14 (27) juillet. Hélie est son équivalent français. Fête : 12 avril. 40
as a nameRussian Names
Variant of Ai/be (see Alby).
as a nameIrish first names
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 |
|---|---|
| 1955 | 6 |
| 1956 | 5 |
| 1958 | 5 |
| 1959 | 5 |
| 1962 | 9 |
| 1966 | 7 |
| 1967 | 5 |
| 1968 | 6 |
| 1969 | 5 |
| 1970 | 6 |
| 1971 | 11 |
| 1972 | 6 |
| 1973 | 7 |
| 1974 | 12 |
| 1975 | 10 |
| 1976 | 8 |
| 1977 | 9 |
| 1978 | 6 |
| 1980 | 9 |
| 1981 | 19 |
| 1982 | 14 |
| 1983 | 7 |
| 1984 | 8 |
| 1985 | 9 |
| 1986 | 13 |
| 1987 | 10 |
| 1988 | 11 |
| 1989 | 16 |
| 1990 | 19 |
| 1991 | 22 |
| 1992 | 24 |
| 1993 | 17 |
| 1994 | 29 |
| 1995 | 37 |
| 1996 | 28 |
| 1997 | 40 |
| 1998 | 48 |
| 1999 | 53 |
| 2000 | 54 |
| 2001 | 56 |
| 2002 | 95 |
| 2003 | 93 |
| 2004 | 109 |
| 2005 | 89 |
| 2006 | 96 |
| 2007 | 81 |
| 2008 | 104 |
| 2009 | 103 |
| 2010 | 112 |
| 2011 | 93 |
| 2012 | 110 |
| 2013 | 94 |
| 2014 | 121 |
| 2015 | 96 |
| 2016 | 96 |
| 2017 | 69 |
| 2018 | 83 |
| 2019 | 73 |
| 2020 | 71 |
| 2021 | 64 |
| 2022 | 59 |
| 2023 | 69 |
| 2024 | 56 |
| 2025 | 56 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 64 years between 1955–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Elli Staib. 1954GRGreek journalist
- Elli Medeirosb. 1956UYFrench-Uruguayan singer and actress
- Elli Kokkinoub. 1970GRGreek singer (born 1970)
- Allie Xb. 1985CAnot in their usual nameCanadian singer
- Allie Hazeb. 1987USnot in their usual nameAmerican pornographic performer (b. 1987)
- Allie Longb. 1987USnot in their usual nameAmerican soccer player
- Allie MacDonaldb. 1988CAnot in their usual nameCanadian actress
- Allie Goninob. 1990USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer, musician, songwriter, actress, and dancer
- Elli Avramb. 1990SESwedish actress
- Allie Grantb. 1994USnot in their usual nameactress
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 78 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25K | #187 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 11K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3K | #5,310 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.4K | #1,361 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 950 | #1,701 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 736 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 612 | #12,617 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 526 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 420 | #12,899 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 278 | #74,891 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 276 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 274 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 523 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Elli?
- We estimate roughly 235 thousand people bear Elli (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
- In which country does Elli have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 121 thousand people bear Elli in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled ellie.
- Where is Elli most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Elli is densest in Finland — about 1 in 515 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Elli compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Elli is the 144th most common given name of 13,994 given names recorded there.
- Is Elli a male or female name?
- Elli 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.
- What does the name Elli mean?
- Recorded meaning: a diminutive of the female given name Elisabeth
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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, “Elli” — the 144th most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.