Elson

given name · Latin script

Meaning: from Elson (Hampshire, Somerset), or perhaps a late form of ELSTON; first attested Richard Elson 1379 PTY (A Dictionary of English Surnames)

A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 36 countries

/ɛlsɔn/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated

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Elson is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 29,540 people, counted by IBGE in 2022.

  • ALAlbania1 in 4.5K(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 7.2K
  • VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines≈1 in 12K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

29,540 people, 2022

Record sources
319 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 4.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Albania

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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How to pronounce Elson

  • Portuguese:/ɛlsɔn/(machine-generated) model-generated
  • Spanish:/elson/(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

from Elson (Hampshire, Somerset), or perhaps a late form of ELSTON; first attested Richard Elson 1379 PTY

Cited for this meaning 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Elson 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.

Where Elson is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#63429,5401 in 7.2K33KElson128
AO Angola—≈4,300 est.≈1 in 8.8K—Elson9
PH Philippines—≈3,600 est.≈1 in 32K—Elson43
ZA South Africa—≈1,400 est.≈1 in 46K—Elson24
TZ Tanzania—≈1,200 est.≈1 in 58K—Elson10
AL Albania—6801 in 4.5K680—1
PT Portugal—≈540 est.≈1 in 20KlistedElson41
VC St. Vincent & Grenadines—≈9 est.≈1 in 12K36—1

29,540 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Elson is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Albanian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, United States, United Kingdom, Italy

    Also written Elsoñ, Êlsôñ, Elšon, Elsôñ

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Philippines, Congo - Kinshasa

    Also written Ëlson, Élson

  • Arabic given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States, Syria

    Also written Elşon, El-Son

  • Swedish given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Denmark

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Ëlsön

63 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
1940196019802000Buddy Roemer, b. 1943Elson Becerra, b. 1978Elson Ferreira de Souza, b. 1989

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)
InformalOlá Elson,Hi Elson, (English)

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)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Elson under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Elson mean, and where does it come from?
from Elson (Hampshire, Somerset), or perhaps a late form of ELSTON; first attested Richard Elson 1379 PTY Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
Is Elson a male or female name?
Elson is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Brazil (IBGE), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Albania (INSTAT Albania) and Kosovo (ASK Kosovo).
How do you pronounce Elson?
It depends on the language: in Portuguese /ɛlsɔn/; in Spanish /elson/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
How common is the name Elson?
In Brazil, the national register counted 29,540 people named Elson in 2022, about 1 in 7.2 thousand residents.
How common is Elson compared with other names?
In Brazil, Elson is the 634th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
Which countries have the most people named Elson?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 30 thousand people named Elson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled elson. After it come Angola, Philippines, South Africa and Tanzania; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Elson most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Elson is densest in Albania — about 1 in 4.5 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.

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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, “Elson” — ranked 832nd in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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