Meaning of the nameEliel

Eliel is a masculine Hebrew name from the Old Testament that Behind the Name translates as 'my God is God'.

Meaning

“my God is God”

Source: Behind the Name: Eliel · Wiktionary: Eliel · Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Morfemário (ELI-)

People (2022): 29,350
Rank in Brazil: #837
Median age: 32 years
2010 Census: 27,471; people

Eliel in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Eliel, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 1980s (6,739 people).

184 women 29,166 men

Source: IBGE, 2022 Demographic Census, Nomes no Brasil. The census counts the first name of people alive in 2022; small counts are not published, and the first group covers everyone born before 1940. How to read these data.

Where the name Eliel is most common

States with the highest share of people named Eliel in the population, in the 2022 Census.

Amapá 0.040%
Rondônia 0.033%
Pará 0.032%
Amazonas 0.027%
Alagoas 0.024%

All states

State	People	% of population
São Paulo	5,541	0.013%
Pará	2,586	0.032%
Paraná	2,438	0.021%
Bahia	2,295	0.016%
Pernambuco	2,014	0.022%
Minas Gerais	1,734	0.008%
Rio de Janeiro	1,652	0.010%
Santa Catarina	1,111	0.015%
Amazonas	1,080	0.027%
Rio Grande do Sul	904	0.008%
Goiás	879	0.013%
Mato Grosso	759	0.021%
Alagoas	740	0.024%
Maranhão	734	0.011%
Mato Grosso do Sul	602	0.022%
Ceará	593	0.007%
Rio Grande do Norte	575	0.017%
Espírito Santo	537	0.014%
Rondônia	522	0.033%
Paraíba	495	0.013%
Piauí	298	0.009%
Amapá	290	0.040%
Distrito Federal	273	0.010%
Sergipe	261	0.012%
Tocantins	162	0.011%
Acre	141	0.017%
Roraima	134	0.021%

States with fewer than 15 people with the name are not shown: IBGE does not publish those counts.

About the name Eliel

Eliel comes from Biblical Hebrew אֱלִיאֵל ('ĕlī'ēl). Behind the Name translates the name as 'my God is God'; Wiktionary gives 'El is my lord' in the English entry and 'my God is El' in the Finnish one. The morpheme list of the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil) cites Machado, for whom the first name Eli would be an abbreviation of Eliel, 'God (is) high'. In the Old Testament, Eliel is the name of several minor characters. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 29,350 people named Eliel, with a median age of 32; the name is almost always male and, proportionally, most common in Amapá.

Sources

Behind the Name: Eliel · behindthename.com · meaning
Wiktionary: Eliel · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Morfemário (ELI-) · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · meaning

Questions about the name Eliel

What does the name Eliel mean?

Eliel means “my God is God”, according to Behind the Name and Wiktionary.

How many people are named Eliel in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 29,350 people with the first name Eliel, which ranks it number 837 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1980s.

Is Eliel a boy's or a girl's name?

Eliel is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 184 women and 29,166 men had this name.

What is the origin of the name Eliel?

Eliel is a name of Hebrew origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Eliel most common?

Proportionally, in Amapá: 0.040% of the state's population is named Eliel (290 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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