Given name · also Swedish
Eelis
“Jehovah is my God”
In Finnish use, Eelis has a related form in Elias. In Hebrew use, Elias carries the interpretation “Jehovah is my God.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
In Finnish use, Eelis has a related form in Elias. In Hebrew use, Elias carries the interpretation “Jehovah is my God.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Eelis comes from Swedish, and ultimately from Biblical Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Finnish usage, Eelis developed from ELIS.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2016. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Eelis through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2016
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2016. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Eelis’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Eelis developed from the Swedish form ELIS. In Finnish usage, Eelis has a related form in Elias. In Finnish usage, Eelis has a conventional equivalent in the German form Elias.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Eelis has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Biblical Hebrew roots to each of them.
3 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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