Eeli
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Eli (biblical character) (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈeːli/(recorded in a dictionary) Finnish · from Wiktionary
Eeli is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country: 6,532 people, counted by DVV.
- FIFinland1 in 853(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 276K
- ISIceland1 in 351K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- Finland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 853 (inferred from the name graph)
6,532 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Eeli
- Finnish:/ˈeːli/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Eli (biblical character)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Eeli 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.
6,532 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register). 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: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Eeli Erkkiläb. 1909FIFinnish politician
- Eeli Lepistöb. 1926FIFinnish politician (1926-1973)
- Eeli Tolvanenb. 1999FIFinnish ice hockey player
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Eeli mean, and where does it come from?
- Eli (biblical character) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Eeli?
- In the etymology graph, Eli, Ely and Heli are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Eeli?
- In Finnish /ˈeːli/ (Wiktionary).
- How common is the name Eeli?
- In Finland, the national register counted 6,532 people named Eeli, about 1 in 853 residents.
- Is Eeli a male or female name?
- Eeli is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Finland (DVV).
- Which countries have the most people named Eeli?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 6.5 thousand people named Eeli, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled eeli. After it come Sweden, Poland and Iceland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Eeli most common?
- Eeli is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 853 people carrying it.
What do you want to know about Eeli?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/eeliThe 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, “Eeli” — ranked 230th in Finland (DVV). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.