Elo
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Finnish: life, living
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/elo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Elo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 11K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 14K
- BRBrazil1 in 433K
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.
- Finland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 57 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
497 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a male given name of uncertain origin
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
How Elo is read(measured from records)
Elo is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French36%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Elo in French.
- English19%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Elo in English.
- Spanish18%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Elo in Spanish.
- Finnish11%
life, living
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Danish5.7%
a male given name of uncertain origin
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Elo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | 497 | 1 in 11K | 5.1K | — | 16 |
| BR Brazil | 489 | 1 in 433K | 489 | Elo | 54 |
| DK Denmark | 418 | 1 in 14K | 409 | — | — |
| US United States | 200 | 1 in 1.7M | 372 | Elo | 57 |
| NL Netherlands | 11 | 1 in 1.6M | 11 | — | 2 |
| PT Portugal | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Elo | 5 |
497 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); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)
Elo is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, link
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Kurdish, Eagle
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
In Russian, Semen Elo, courtier. 1569.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Welsh, third-person singular present subjunctive of mynd
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Elo Tuglasb. 1896EEEstonian socialite and diarist (1896-1970)
- Elo Šándorb. 1896SKSlovak writer (1896-1952)
- Elo Tamulb. 1913EEEstonian singer and actress (1913-1994)
- Elo Romančíkb. 1922SKCzechoslovak member of Czechoslovak national parliament, actor and Slovak nation politician (1922–2012)
- Elo Tostenæsb. 1935DKDanish rower
- Elo Hansenb. 1945Danish badminton player
- Elo Tustb. 1954EEEstonian film director (born 1954)
- Elo Lindsalub. 1968EEEstonian literary scholar (born 1968)
- Elo Viidingb. 1974EEEstonian poet (born 1974)
- Elo-Mall Toometb. 1981EEEstonian poet and illustrator (born 1981)
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)
Attested in 41 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 5.1K | #359 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 2.2K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 372 | #55,255 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 368 | #59,374 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 299 | #62,577 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 244 | #31,253 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 14 | #30,690 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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
- Where does the name Elo come from?
- a male given name of uncertain origin Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Elo?
- In the etymology graph, Elizabeth, Lisa and Isabel are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Elo?
- A machine transcription gives /elo/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Elo a male or female name?
- Elo 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 Elo mean?
- In Finnish, life, living
- In which country does Elo have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 497 people named Elo, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Elo most common?
- Elo is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 11 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Elo?
- In Finland, the national register counted 497 people named Elo, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Elo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/eloThe 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, “Elo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.