Given name & surname · also Old English
Eland
“cultivated land by a river”
Eland is a surname from Old English (ultimately Dutch).
Meaning & origin
What it means
Eland goes back to Old English ealand, meaning “cultivated land by a river.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Eland comes from Old English, and ultimately from Dutch.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old English ealand (“cultivated land by a river”), from Dutch Eland.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2004. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Eland through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 85
- 85 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2012
- 10 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 8 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 2012. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 148 as a first name in 2020; 623 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
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