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Female Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Eli m for the male version.
Usage
Norwegian
Danish
Swedish
Finnish
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Origin and Meaning
1) Short form of Elisabet [1] [2]
2) Variant form of Elin [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [2]
3) Female form of Eli m [8]
4) Variant form of Ela [8]
Related Names
See also Eili, Elia, Elikka, Êlît, Ili
For male forms see Elier, Elius
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Eli
|
Genitive: |
Elis
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Eli
|
Genitive: |
Elin
|
Partitive: |
Eliä
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Eli
|
Genitive: |
Elis
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Eli
|
Genitive: |
Elis
|
Name Day
Norway
|
21 May
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[10] |
|
763 |
1288 |
235 |
398 |
528 |
890 |
Denmark[11] |
|
714 |
n.a. |
336 |
n.a. |
378 |
n.a. |
Greenland[12] |
|
56 |
229 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Finland[13] |
|
n.a. |
239 |
n.a. |
42 |
n.a. |
197 |
Iceland[14] |
|
2 |
9 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[15] |
|
7758 |
n.a. |
7743 |
n.a. |
15 |
n.a. |
#: count of main first name only |
&: count of both main and additional first names |
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country. |
Statistics as female name
Recent statistics trend[10][11][15][13]:
Sources: [10] [11] [15] [13]
Norwegian historic statistics trend[15]:
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Eli (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.
Statistics as male name
Recent statistics trend[10][11][15][13]:
Sources: [10] [11] [15] [13]
References
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Judith Ahrholdt: Nordic Names - www.nordicnames.de (2004-2023).
- ↑ © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no