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The ELI surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,450 17799 0.001 5
United States (1880 census) 341 12970 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +1109 -4829 0 -2
Other Countries
Australia 10 90752 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for ELI by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 158 16409 0.000 5
Texas 143 12383 0.001 7
New York 106 18826 0.001 6
Indiana 95 8251 0.002 16
Louisiana 88 6076 0.002 20
Top States for ELI by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 35 3945 0.005 46
North Dakota 29 4212 0.005 45
Hawaii 34 3517 0.003 28
Louisiana 88 6076 0.002 20
Montana 17 8834 0.002 19

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called ELI live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called ELI represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called ELI in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a ELI by picking someone at random in South Dakota than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of ELI

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the ELI surname.

Ethnic distribution of ELI in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 873 60.21
Black/African American 300 20.69
Asian/Pacific 100 6.9
Mixed Race 77 5.31
White (Hispanic) 56 3.86
Native American/Alaskan 44 3.03

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the ELI surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

ELI is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of ELI in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of ELI.

Similar names to ELI

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ELI.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for ELI

The following words are slight variants of ELI that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.