Eli



Gender:
Origin: English, Hebrew
405 famous people named Eli found on Wikipedia.
121154 male, 770 female in US.
Most recent ranking: 58-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 43-th in year 2013
Used in: Biblical, Danish, English, Hebrew, Norwegian, Spanish

Meanings

Eli is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, from Biblical עֵלִי "ascent", the name of Eli, the high priest in the Books of Samuel. It came to be used as a given name among the Puritans in the 17th century and was by them taken to the American colonies.
Alternatively, Eli may be an unrelated abbreviation of Hebrew names such as Elijah, Elisha, Eliezer, Elimelech, etc., all containing the element אלי, meaning "my God".
In the United States, the popularity of the given name Eli was hovering around rank 200 in the 1880s. It declined gradually during the late 19th and early-to-mid 20th centuries, falling below rank 700 in 1964. In a significant revival of the name's popularity in the early 1970s, it bounced back above rank 400 in 1976. Its popularity has continued to grow since then, entering the top 100 masculine given names in the 2000s, and ranking as 43rd most popular given name as of 2013.
Eli and Elin are also short forms for the feminine name Helena used in Scandinavia.


Masc. proper name, in Old Testament, the name of a high priest of Israel, teacher of Samuel, from Hebrew, literally "high."


Eli is the name of the high priest in the Books of Samuel. Means: ascend, my God in Hebrew.

Famous People: 405 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Eli Manning 1981 American football player, quarterback
2 Eli Roth 1972 American actor and film director
3 Eli Wallach 1915 American film, television and stage actor
4 Eli Whitney 1765 American inventor
5 Eli Apple 1995
6 Shaun Ricker 1982 American professional wrestler
7 Eli Goree 2000
8 Eli Marienthal 1986 American actor
9 Eli Broad 1933 American businessperson
10 Eli Craig 1972 American actor and director
11 Eli Kim 1991 Korean musician
12 Eli Rogers 1992
13 Eli Lieb 1979 American pop singer-songwriter
14 Eli Dingle
15 Eli Gold 1953 American sportscaster
16 Eli M. Black 1921 American businessman
17 Eli Elezra 1960 Poker player
18 Eli Pariser 1980 American activist; chief executive of Upworthy
19 Eli Harold 1994 American football player
20 Eli Lake 1972 American journalist
21 Eli Babalj 1992 Australian soccer player
22 Eli Cross 1967 American pornographic film director
23 Eli "Paperboy" Reed 1983 Soul/Pop singer-songwriter and guitarist
24 Eli Fara 1967 Singer
25 Eli Asser 1922 Dutch playwright, journalist, songwriter and copywriter
26 Eli Bard
27 Eli Whiteside 1979 American baseball catcher
28 Elisabeth Wasserscheid 1978 German actress
29 Eli Mattson 1981 American musician
30 Eli Danker 1948 Actor
31 Eli Ohana 1964 Israeli football player and manager
32 Beatrice Eli 1987 Swedish singer
33 Eli Bowen 1844 American circus performer
34 Eli Dasa 1992 Israeli footballer
35 Eli Tomac 1992
36 Eli Holzman 1974 American television producer and writer
37 Eli Walker 1992 Rugby player
38 Eli Ben-Menachem 1947 Israeli politician
39 Eli Attie American speechwriter
40 Eli Jaxon-Bear 1947 American spiritual teacher
41 Eli Terry 1772 American clockmaker
42 Eli Lilly 1885 American businessman
43 Eli Marrero 1973 Baseball player
44 Eli "Weevil" Navarro Fictional human
45 Eli Meltzer 1979 American rapper
46 Eli Yishai 1962 Israeli politician
47 Eli Corrêa 1952
48 Eli Wallace
49 Eli Somer 1951 Israeli Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Haifa, School of Social Work
50 Eli Janney American record producer
51 Eli Heckscher 1879 Swedish historianand economist
52 Eli Biham 1960 Israeli cryptologist
53 Eli Erlick 1995 LGBTQ Activist
54 Eli Guttman 1958 Israeli football manager
55 Eli Rosenbaum 1955 American Nazi hunter
56 Eli Ben-Dahan 1954 Israeli politician
57 Eli Sabiá 1988 Brazilian footballer and manager
58 Eli Marom 1955 Israeli general
59 Eli Capilouto 1949 American academic and dentist
60 Eli
61 Eli Dershwitz 1995 American fencer
62 Eli Ruckenstein 1925 American chemist
63 Eli Yablonovitch 1946 American physicist
64 Eli Ostreicher 1984 American businessman
65 Eli Gabay Canadian actor
66 Eli Woods 1923 English comedian and comic actor
67 Eli Jacobs 1937 American baseball executive
68 Bobby Eli 1956 American musician
69 Eli Thayer 1819 American politician
70 Eli Corrêa Filho 1976
71 Eli Zeira 1928 Head of Aman
72 Eli Siegel 1902 Latvian-American poet, philosopher
73 Eli Thompson 1973 American skydiver
74 Eli Boggs American pirates
75 Eli Reed 1946 American photographer
76 Eli Saslow 1982 American journalist
77 Eli Kulp
78 Eli Hahury 1952 Dutch criminal (1952-1978)
79 Eli Northrup 1984
80 Eli Amir 1937 Israeli writer/civil servant
81 Diego Eli 1988 Brazilian footballer
82 Eli Maor 1937 Israeli mathematician
83 Eli Bebout 1946 American politician and businessman
84 John Richmond Former American professional wrestler
85 Eli Templeton 1995 Australian rules footballer
86 Eli Whitney Blake 1795 American inventor
87 Eli Herring 1969 Player of American football
88 Eli Verschleiser 1974 American Real Estate Investor
89 Eli Smith 1801 American missionary
90 Eli Suarez 1978 Argentinian musician
91 Eli P. Ashmun 1770 American politician
92 Eli Berman 1960 American economist
93 Eli Whitney Debevoise II 1953 American banker
94 Eli Geva 1950 Israeli brigade commander
95 Eli Kristin Hanssveen 1973 Norwegian singer
96 Eli James 1982 American musician
97 Eli Whitney Debevoise 1899 American lawyer
98 Eli Grba 1934 American baseball player
99 Eli Bauer 1928 Cartoonist
100 Eli Lotar 1905 French photographer
101 Eli Göndör 1958 Swedish journalist
102 Eli Gerstner 1980 American musician
103 Eli Mintz 1904 American actor
104 Eli Baker 2001 American actor
105 Eli Houston Murray 1843 Governor of Utah Territory between 1880 and 1886
106 Billy Eli 1962 American singer
107 Eli H. Janney 1831 American mechanical engineer
108 Eli Noam 1946 Professor of Finance and Economics at the Columbia Business School
109 Eli L. Whiteley 1913 United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
110 Eli Noyes 1946 Animator
111 Eli Alaluf 1945 Israeli politician
112 Eli Zaret American journalist
113 Eli Degibri 1978 Israeli musician
114 Eli Coimbra 1942 Brazilian journalist (1942-1998)
115 Eli M. Saulsbury 1817 American politician
116 Eli Gottlieb American novelist
117 Eli Mandel 1922 Canadian writer
118 Eli Ginzberg 1911 American academic
119 Eli Zizov 1991 Israeli footballer
120 Eli Hirsch American philosopher
121 Eli Suissa 1956 Israeli politician
122 Eli Whitney Blake, Jr. 1836 American academic
123 Eli Beeding 1928 American test pilots
124 Eli Abbott 1869 American college football coach, college baseball coach
125 Eli Strand 1943 American football player
126 Eli Coleman 1948 Sexologist
127 Eli K. Cole 1867 American Marine Corps general
128 Eli Thomas Reich 1913 United States Navy Vice Admiral
129 Eli Evankovich 1982 Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
130 Eli C. D. Shortridge 1830 American politician
131 Eli Langer 1967 Canadian artist
132 Eli Beer 1973 American activist; founder of United Hatzalah
133 Eli Pasquale 1960 Canadian basketball player
134 Eli Eban Israeli-American musician
135 Eli Barbur 1948
136 Roger Eli 1965 English footballer
137 Eli Bartra 1947 Mexican philosopher
138 Eli Yatzpan 1965 Israeli entertainer
139 Eli Eduardo de Gortari 1918 Mexican philosopher and engineer
140 Eli Segal 1943 American businessman
141 Eli Shukron 2000 Israeli archaeologist
142 Eli Balas 1955 American poker player
143 Eli Long 1837 Union Army general
144 Eli Kassner 1924 Canadian classical guitarist
145 Eli Shamir Computer scientist
146 Eli Sharvit
147 Eli Izhakoff American businessperson
148 Eli Moschcowitz 1879 American physician
149 Eli Aflalo 1952 Politician
150 Eli Landa 1984 Norwegian model
151 Eli Todd 1769 American psychiatrist
152 Eli Levén 1984 Swedish writer
153 Eli Finish 1975 Israeli actor
154 Eli Franklin Burton 1879 Canadian physicist
155 Eli Dayan 1949 Israeli politician
156 Eli Ayers 1778 American physician
157 Eli Heimans 1861 Dutch Jewish educator and conservationist
158 Eli Sagan 1927 American businessman
159 Eli Elbaz 1992 Israeli footballer
160 Eli Avikzar 1947
161 Eli Cook 1814 Mayor of the city of Buffalo, New York
162 Eli Eshed 1965 Writer
163 Eli Salzberger 1960 Israeli legal scholar
164 Eli El-Chantiry 1957 Canadian politician
165 Eli Hurvitz 1970 Businessperson
166 Eli Upfal 1954 Israeli computer scientist
167 Eli Fuchs 1924 Israeli footballer
168 Eli Heil 1929 Brazilian painter
169 Look Tin Eli Chinese banker
170 Eli Wilner 1956 American art collector
171 Eli Goodman 1971 American actor
172 Eli Jones 1850 Herbalist
173 Eli D. Hoyle 1851 United States general
174 Eli Tene 1963 Co-founder of Peak Corporate Network
175 Eli Keszler American composer
176 Eli Fischer-Jørgensen 1911 Linguist
177 Eli B. Ames 1820 American lawyer and politician
178 Eli Bremer 1978 American modern pentathlete
179 Eli Baruch Shulman 1959 American rabbi
180 Eli Friedman 1933 American physician
181 Eli Ilan 1928 Canadian artist
182 Eli Carter 1991
183 Eli Cohen 1961 Israeli footballer
184 Eli Fletcher 1889 English footballer
185 Eli P. Clark 1847
186 Eli Robins 1921 American psychiatrist
187 Eli Metcalfe Bruce 1828 Philanthropist and a Representative from Kentucky in the First and Second Confederate Congresses
188 Eli M. Pearce 1929
189 Eli Avidar 1964 Israeli businessman
190 Eli Benneweis 1911
191 Eli Hagen 1947 Norwegian politician
192 Eli Snyman 1996 Zimbabwe-born South African rugby union player
193 Eli Harvey 1860 Sculptor
194 Eli Driks 1964 Israeli footballer
195 Eli Iserbyt 1997 Belgian cyco-cross cyclist
196 Eli Garner 1991 American soccer player
197 Eli Ríos 1976
198 Eli Perry 1799 American politician
199 Eli Landsem 1962 Association football player
200 Eli Waldron 1916 American journalist