Eli Forename
2,830th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 367,886 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Indonesia
Highest density in:
Norway
Eli Forename Definition:
A male name. Hebrew ‘height'; the name of the high priest who brought up the prophet Samuel. It was taken into use as a christian name in the 17th C.
Read More About This ForenameEli Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 87% | 145,947 | 1:1,768 | 153 |
| Brazil | 73% | 40,924 | 1:5,235 | 703 |
| United States | 100% | 36,604 | 1:9,904 | 1,071 |
| Norway | 100% | 11,015 | 1:466 | 120 |
| Mexico | 87% | 10,948 | 1:11,339 | 928 |
| DR Congo | 96% | 9,518 | 1:7,757 | 855 |
| Nigeria | 61% | 8,769 | 1:20,249 | 2,064 |
| Ghana | 95% | 7,978 | 1:3,383 | 488 |
| Peru | 85% | 7,685 | 1:4,137 | 657 |
| Burkina Faso | 89% | 7,597 | 1:2,419 | 355 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 7,014 | 1:4,306 | 584 |
| India | 64% | 5,298 | 1:229,309 | 22,987 |
| Togo | - | 5,274 | 1:1,373 | 204 |
| Madagascar | 100% | 4,232 | 1:5,584 | 1,110 |
| Colombia | 70% | 4,144 | 1:11,530 | 977 |
| Papua New Guinea | 85% | 3,903 | 1:2,089 | 242 |
| Kenya | 100% | 3,072 | 1:15,074 | 1,656 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 2,856 | 1:10,789 | 1,540 |
| Canada | 100% | 2,849 | 1:11,630 | 1,290 |
| Bulgaria | 100% | 2,804 | 1:2,493 | 415 |
| Cameroon | 96% | 2,496 | 1:8,658 | 1,101 |
| Guatemala | 86% | 1,933 | 1:8,333 | 811 |
| Denmark | - | 1,394 | 1:4,053 | 532 |
| Honduras | 100% | 1,349 | 1:6,536 | 780 |
| Costa Rica | 97% | 1,317 | 1:3,620 | 525 |
| Azerbaijan | 98% | 1,291 | 1:7,469 | 1,080 |
| Philippines | 86% | 1,286 | 1:82,433 | 4,958 |
| Mali | 100% | 1,270 | 1:13,368 | 1,054 |
| England | 96% | 1,127 | 1:49,337 | 2,339 |
| Zambia | - | 1,114 | 1:14,232 | 1,381 |
| El Salvador | - | 1,071 | 1:5,921 | 570 |
| Uganda | 97% | 1,029 | 1:39,803 | 2,544 |
| Jamaica | - | 1,011 | 1:2,852 | 579 |
| Nicaragua | 90% | 928 | 1:6,485 | 829 |
| Albania | 99% | 898 | 1:3,393 | 701 |
| Congo | 100% | 874 | 1:5,731 | 820 |
| Spain | 54% | 869 | 1:53,544 | 2,088 |
| Bangladesh | 86% | 825 | 1:193,287 | 10,074 |
| Tanzania | 85% | 810 | 1:65,171 | 4,348 |
| Belgium | 100% | 788 | 1:14,581 | 1,310 |
| Ecuador | - | 773 | 1:22,933 | 1,253 |
| Australia | - | 765 | 1:17,853 | 1,322 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 747 | 1:13,964 | 1,463 |
| Netherlands | 94% | 692 | 1:24,425 | 2,171 |
| South Africa | 66% | 664 | 1:82,127 | 7,134 |
| Niger | 84% | 616 | 1:31,143 | 1,849 |
| Argentina | 69% | 612 | 1:69,891 | 1,608 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 599 | 1:11,940 | 1,284 |
| Egypt | 79% | 586 | 1:156,828 | 6,244 |
| Russia | 55% | 460 | 1:313,552 | 4,013 |
| Benin | 100% | 413 | 1:25,607 | 2,524 |
| Malaysia | 63% | 390 | 1:78,077 | 5,855 |
| France | 98% | 378 | 1:175,847 | 3,044 |
| Sweden | 55% | 356 | 1:27,691 | 1,753 |
| Bolivia | 100% | 352 | 1:30,118 | 1,663 |
| Germany | 73% | 352 | 1:274,653 | 3,707 |
| Liberia | 87% | 345 | 1:12,789 | 1,038 |
| Poland | 96% | 330 | 1:115,234 | 2,410 |
| Italy | 98% | 319 | 1:191,417 | 2,778 |
| Zimbabwe | 58% | 314 | 1:49,120 | 4,284 |
| Guinea | - | 293 | 1:40,473 | 1,455 |
| Thailand | 87% | 278 | 1:252,035 | 15,251 |
| Chile | 53% | 240 | 1:73,363 | 2,161 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 236 | 1:10,418 | 930 |
| Panama | 100% | 231 | 1:16,912 | 1,800 |
| New Zealand | - | 209 | 1:21,704 | 1,662 |
| Romania | 100% | 199 | 1:100,764 | 4,446 |
| Mauritania | 96% | 187 | 1:21,900 | 1,536 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 182 | 1:19,507 | 907 |
| China | - | 172 | 1:7,942,185 | 59,448 |
| Greece | 100% | 170 | 1:64,321 | 2,064 |
| Malawi | 100% | 169 | 1:101,256 | 5,457 |
| Ivory Coast | 83% | 167 | 1:138,179 | 7,674 |
| Qatar | 75% | 166 | 1:14,275 | 2,208 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 138 | 1:24,838 | 1,233 |
| Turkey | 69% | 137 | 1:567,896 | 7,479 |
| Uzbekistan | 50% | 136 | 1:226,371 | 5,030 |
| Switzerland | 53% | 125 | 1:65,708 | 2,524 |
| Pakistan | 78% | 112 | 1:1,735,336 | 24,866 |
| Croatia | 100% | 107 | 1:39,412 | 1,542 |
| Kuwait | - | 95 | 1:39,845 | 3,619 |
| Haiti | 100% | 94 | 1:114,117 | 6,226 |
| Israel | 80% | 87 | 1:96,585 | 4,266 |
| Japan | - | 82 | 1:1,560,806 | 17,908 |
| Faroe Islands | 100% | 81 | 1:607 | 131 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 71 | 1:334,784 | 23,192 |
| Cuba | - | 66 | 1:174,342 | 2,713 |
| Belize | 100% | 59 | 1:6,005 | 1,126 |
| Greenland | - | 58 | 1:972 | 218 |
| Senegal | 81% | 55 | 1:265,116 | 4,692 |
| Paraguay | 75% | 51 | 1:141,898 | 2,844 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 49 | 1:2,277 | 426 |
| Sudan | - | 49 | 1:771,571 | 2,562 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 47 | 1:28,966 | 3,089 |
| Estonia | 100% | 43 | 1:30,590 | 2,187 |
| Hong Kong | - | 43 | 1:180,296 | 3,188 |
| Afghanistan | 92% | 42 | 1:776,750 | 10,713 |
| Wales | 93% | 40 | 1:77,358 | 2,170 |
| Georgia | 70% | 38 | 1:98,381 | 3,625 |
| Kazakhstan | 53% | 38 | 1:467,022 | 7,101 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 38 | 1:15,288 | 1,325 |
| Czechia | 90% | 36 | 1:296,004 | 1,948 |
| Namibia | - | 35 | 1:68,691 | 3,761 |
| Aruba | - | 33 | 1:3,145 | 634 |
| Singapore | 50% | 33 | 1:190,517 | 8,408 |
| Botswana | 50% | 32 | 1:68,264 | 6,262 |
| Nepal | 96% | 29 | 1:982,322 | 21,367 |
| Scotland | 68% | 29 | 1:184,495 | 3,374 |
| North Macedonia | 100% | 27 | 1:77,435 | 4,248 |
| Ethiopia | 100% | 25 | 1:3,902,405 | 10,287 |
| Iraq | - | 24 | 1:1,459,077 | 10,051 |
| Guyana | 100% | 23 | 1:33,185 | 3,507 |
| Austria | 100% | 22 | 1:387,009 | 4,082 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 22 | 1:8,082 | 1,192 |
| South Korea | - | 22 | 1:252,019 | 8,670 |
| Ireland | 87% | 20 | 1:232,176 | 4,019 |
| Latvia | 100% | 20 | 1:100,782 | 1,905 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 77% | 19 | 1:314,383 | 12,290 |
| Serbia | 100% | 19 | 1:376,091 | 4,433 |
| American Samoa | - | 17 | 1:3,285 | 601 |
| Cambodia | 75% | 17 | 1:957,255 | 15,446 |
| Malta | - | 17 | 1:25,256 | 1,655 |
| Hungary | 73% | 16 | 1:611,986 | 2,162 |
| Belarus | 55% | 15 | 1:632,159 | 3,807 |
| Guam | - | 14 | 1:11,475 | 1,503 |
| Kosovo | - | 14 | 1:132,960 | 6,379 |
| Moldova | 100% | 13 | 1:273,934 | 2,181 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 100% | 12 | 1:4,572 | 824 |
| Vietnam | - | 11 | 1:8,420,283 | 3,954 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 10 | 1:10,975 | 1,397 |
| Bahrain | - | 9 | 1:149,853 | 3,890 |
| Central African Republic | - | 9 | 1:501,710 | 504 |
| Chad | 100% | 9 | 1:1,510,933 | 6,264 |
| Finland | 69% | 9 | 1:609,243 | 6,562 |
| Gambia | - | 9 | 1:214,066 | 587 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 9 | 1:62,672 | 2,160 |
| Morocco | - | 9 | 1:3,816,515 | 8,291 |
| Jordan | - | 7 | 1:1,260,968 | 6,027 |
| Lebanon | - | 7 | 1:803,939 | 7,854 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 6 | 1:16,566 | 2,341 |
| Armenia | 50% | 6 | 1:486,459 | 5,701 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 6 | 1:9,111 | 1,173 |
| Andorra | - | 5 | 1:16,577 | 726 |
| Lesotho | 80% | 5 | 1:407,999 | 22,262 |
| Monaco | 100% | 5 | 1:7,693 | 1,062 |
| Angola | 100% | 4 | 1:6,741,652 | 4,704 |
| Fiji | - | 4 | 1:223,094 | 2,508 |
| Iceland | - | 4 | 1:91,504 | 3,703 |
| Libya | - | 4 | 1:1,555,327 | 1,779 |
| Lithuania | 100% | 4 | 1:737,970 | 2,861 |
| Somalia | - | 4 | 1:3,381,467 | 5,208 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 4 | 1:5,199,772 | 10,550 |
| Suriname | - | 4 | 1:138,203 | 2,927 |
| Syria | - | 4 | 1:4,826,519 | 5,774 |
| Ukraine | - | 4 | 1:11,374,977 | 14,813 |
| Barbados | - | 3 | 1:96,596 | 2,324 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 100% | 3 | 1:1,174,819 | 6,090 |
| Cape Verde | 100% | 3 | 1:176,384 | 4,377 |
| Grenada | 100% | 3 | 1:36,042 | 2,687 |
| Macau | - | 3 | 1:202,736 | 1,370 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 3 | 1:1,770,021 | 5,487 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 2 | 1:921,573 | 3,058 |
| Algeria | - | 2 | 1:19,088,360 | 22,377 |
| Bahamas | - | 2 | 1:199,685 | 2,758 |
| Cook Islands | - | 2 | 1:9,076 | 1,075 |
| Iran | - | 2 | 1:39,248,434 | 50,459 |
| Maldives | - | 2 | 1:216,952 | 3,781 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 2 | 1:25,615 | 3,101 |
| Anguilla | - | 1 | 1:13,255 | 1,687 |
| Bermuda | - | 1 | 1:64,826 | 2,481 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:31,250 | 1,787 |
| Brunei | - | 1 | 1:419,570 | 3,266 |
| Burundi | - | 1 | 1:9,906,559 | 2,558 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 1 | 1:61,299 | 2,487 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 1 | 1:871,076 | 5,368 |
| Equatorial Guinea | - | 1 | 1:1,137,689 | 1,044 |
| French Polynesia | - | 1 | 1:277,902 | 3,605 |
| Gabon | 100% | 1 | 1:1,883,336 | 4,538 |
| Gibraltar | - | 1 | 1:34,138 | 985 |
| Guinea-Bissau | - | 1 | 1:1,728,218 | 422 |
| Jersey | - | 1 | 1:99,980 | 2,122 |
| Laos | - | 1 | 1:6,586,856 | 1,888 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 1 | 1:37,856 | 1,091 |
| Micronesia | - | 1 | 1:106,500 | 1,462 |
| Myanmar | - | 1 | 1:51,948,273 | 3,226 |
| Northern Cyprus | 100% | 1 | 1:318,133 | 3,044 |
| Oman | - | 1 | 1:4,108,667 | 12,526 |
| Rwanda | - | 1 | 1:11,371,433 | 4,615 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 1 | 1:7,088,663 | 1,497 |
| Tonga | - | 1 | 1:107,436 | 779 |
| Turkmenistan | - | 1 | 1:5,472,870 | 3,925 |
| Tuvalu | - | 1 | 1:11,131 | 89 |
The alternate forms: Elí (113) & Éli (4) are calculated separately.
Eli (33,374) may also be a surname.
Eli Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A male name. Hebrew ‘height'; the name of the high priest who brought up the prophet Samuel. It was taken into use as a christian name in the 17th C.
— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe
A diminutive of the next three names, especially of Elias.
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
Hebrew (masculine) - My God.
— What is Your Name? (1863) by Sophy Moody
E'-ly, the offering or lifting up. 1. A high-priest of the Hebrews; of the race of Ithamar, who succeeded Abdon, and governed the Hebrews, both as priest and judge, during forty years. 1 Sam. i. 3. 2. Eh, or Heli. Luke iii. 23.
— The Proper Names of The Bible (1855) by John Farrar
Meaning: my God: elevated (high priest in Samuel’s time).
— A Dictionary of the Proper Names of the Old and New Testament (1909) by James Beaumont Jackson
Meaning: my God: elevated (high priest in Samuel’s time).
— A Dictionary of the Proper Names of the Old and New Testament (1909) by James Beaumont Jackson
A Hebrew name, meaning: The highest: elevation: foster son.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
User-submitted Reference
This name means 'tree' in Bulgarian. It comes from the word ела, which means 'fir (a tree name)'. It is an old Bulgarian name.
- 573f4nComes from the Bulgarian word for 'fir'. The name is diminutive from Ela (Fir)- Elica (Elitsa).
- elitsakEli Forename Popularity
Eli Demographics
Average Male Eli Height
175.14 cm
Average male height (US):
175.3 cm
Sample size: 2,100 (2014)
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Phonetically Similar Names
Eli Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Eli in the Russian language | ||
| Эли | eli | - |
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