Elon
loc · Latin script
Meaning: A Hebrew name meaning 'oak' or 'terebinth', symbolizing strength, stability, and endurance (Biblical Names Compiled Database)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 36 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Elon is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country, where it is the 86th most common given name. Elon is also written אלון in Hebrew.
- GYGuyana1 in 6.5K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 9.7K
- FIFinland1 in 81K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Elon itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Israel (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 254 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 named אלון, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Elon in other scripts: Hebrew and Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled אלון in IL Israel, Alon in US United States and אילון in BR Brazil.
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)A Hebrew name meaning 'oak' or 'terebinth', symbolizing strength, stability, and endurance.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Elon, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Elon 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | #86 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 525 | 9K | אלון | 139 |
| US United States | — | 2,218 | 1 in 150K | 1.7K | Alon | 254 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,585 | 1 in 134K | 1.6K | אילון | 68 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,055 | 1 in 9.7K | 1.1K | — | 7 |
| PL Poland | — | 542as Alon | 1 in 71K | 538 | — | 3 |
| GY Guyana | — | 115 | 1 in 6.5K | 115 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 69 | 1 in 81K | 140 | — | 3 |
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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Elon 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.
Elon represents the continuity of leadership and God's provision for Israel during the period of the Judges, specifically highlighting the contribution of the tribe of Zebulun.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
As a grandson of Jacob, he is one of the seventy souls who went down to Egypt and a tribal patriarch of the Zebulunites.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
Represents the Canaanite/Hittite culture into which Esau married, contrary to the wishes of his parents.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
In English, Synonym of metol (“p-methylaminophenol sulfate”).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
God loves me
as a nameThe book of African 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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Elon Lindenstraussb. 1970ILIsraeli mathematician
- Elon Goldb. 1970USAmerican actor
- Elon Muskb. 1971USAmerican businessman (born 1971)
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
(measured from records)58 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 36 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Elon mean, and where does it come from?
- A Hebrew name meaning 'oak' or 'terebinth', symbolizing strength, stability, and endurance. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- Which countries have the most people named Elon?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named אלון in Israel, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Brazil, Sweden and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Elon most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Elon is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 6.5 thousand people — even though Israel holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Elon?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,218 people named Elon in 2020, about 1 in 150 thousand residents.
- How common is Elon compared with other names?
- In Israel, Elon is the 86th most common given name of 107,303 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Elon?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/elonThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Elon” — ranked 54th in Israel (CBS Israel). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.