Elfa
given name · Latin script
Meaning: river
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries
/elfa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Elfa is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 200K(inferred from the name graph)
- ISIceland1 in 2K
- LVLatvia1 in 26K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 70 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)river
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Elfa 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.
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: datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015); the co-datosgov-candidates register; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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)Elfa is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Esperanto, resembling or related to elves, elfin, elvish
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Elfa Secioriab. 1959IDIndonesian composer (1959-2011)
- Elfa Rún Kristinsdóttirb. 1985ISIcelandic musician (born 1985)
- Elfa de CardonaCountess Consort of Empúries and Baroness of L'Albi
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)34 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Elfa mean, and where does it come from?
- river Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Elfa?
- In the etymology graph, Alba, Elba and Elva are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Elfa?
- A machine transcription gives /elfa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Elfa a male or female name?
- Elfa is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Elfa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.5 thousand people named Elfa in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Elfa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Elfa is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 2.0 thousand people — even though Indonesia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Elfa?
- In Iceland, the national register counted 178 people named Elfa in 2026, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/elfaThe 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, “Elfa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.