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Eli as a name has two different meanings, both originating in the Hebrew Bible.
Eli can be used for males (Hebrew tradition) or females (Scandinavian tradition). Hebrew origin, from Biblical עֵלִי "ascent", spelled with the Hebrew letter ayin in the beginning, the name of Eli, the high priest in the Books of Samuel. It is identical to the Arabic name Ali (علي).
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.
Eli may alternatively be an unrelated abbreviation of Hebrew names such as
Elijah, Elias, Elisha, Eliezer, Elimelech, etc., all containing the element אלי, meaning "my God" and spelled with the Hebrew letter aleph in the beginning. El is the name of a Semitic deity that is used in the Bible as a name for the god of the Israelites, and -i is the suffix for the genitive form ("mine").
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 the 64th most popular boys' name as of 2021.
Eli is also a short form of names Elisabet, Elin, and Helena in Scandinavia, unrelated to the masculine Hebrew name Eli. The two names differ in pronunciation as well.




People with the name


Eli Abaev (born 1998), American-Israeli basketball player
Eli Abarbanel (Hebrew: אלי אברבנל; born 1976), Israeli footballer
Eli Abbott (1869–1943), American football player and football and baseball coach
Eli Amir (אלי עמיר born 1937), Israeli writer and peace activist
Eli Bebout (born 1946), Wyoming politician
Eli Beeding (1928-2013), US Air Force captain and rocket test subject
Eli Biham (אלי ביהם, born 1960), Israeli cryptographer
Eli M. Black (Elihu) (1921–1975), American businessman
Eli Whitney Blake (1795–1886), American inventor
Eli Whitney Blake Jr. (1836–1895), American scientist
Eli Broad (1933–2021), American billionaire, philanthropist, art collector
Eli Metcalfe Bruce (1828–1866), philanthropist, financier and politician from Kentucky
Eli Franklin Burton (1879–1948), Canadian physicist
Eli Bush (fl. 2000s–2020s), American film and theatre producer
Eli Cohen (disambiguation), multiple people
Eli Dasa (born 1992), Israeli footballer for Dynamo Moscow and the Israel national team
Eli Dershwitz (born 1995), 2023 World Saber Champion, 2015 Under-20 World Saber Champion, U.S. Olympic saber fencer
Eli Erlick (born 1995), American activist
Eli Giannini (born 1956), female Australian architect and director of MGS Architects in Melbourne
Eli Gorenstein (born 1952), Israeli actor, voice actor, singer and cellist
Eli Heckscher (1879–1952), Swedish economist
Eli Huston (Houston, in some sources; c. 1799–1835), associate justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi
Eli Jones Henkle (1825–1893), U.S. Congressman from Maryland
Eli Holstein (born 2004), American football player
Eli Hurvitz (Elihu, 1932-2011), Israeli industrialist
Eli H. Janney (1831–1912), engineer, Confederate soldier
Eli King (footballer) (born 2002), Welsh footballer
Eli C. King (fl. 1820s), American politician who was the third mayor of Columbus, Ohio
Eli Langer (born 1967), Canadian artist
Eli Lilly (1838–1898), American soldier, pharmaceutical chemist, and industrialist, founder of Eli Lilly and Company
Eli Lilly (industrialist) (1885–1977), American industrialist, grandson of the Colonel
Eli Long (1837–1903), General in the Union Army in the American Civil War
Eli Manning (Elisha) (born 1981), American football player, 2-time super bowl MVP
Eli Mohar (1948–2006), Israeli songwriter and columnist
Eli Morgan (born 1996), American baseball pitcher for the Cleveland Indians
Elie Munk (1900–1981), German-born French rabbi and rabbinic scholar
Eli Noam (born 1946), professor at Columbia University
Eli M. Oboler (1915–1983), librarian, Idaho State University and writer
Eli Ohana (אלי אוחנה, born 1964), Israeli football player and coach
Eli Pemberton (born 1997), American basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
Eli "Paperboy" Reed (born 1983), American singer and songwriter
Eli Thomas Reich (1913–1999), US vice admiral
Eli Ricks (born 2001), American football player
Eli Roth (born 1972), American film director
Eli Salzberger (born 1960), Israeli legal scholar
Eli Saulsbury (1817–1893), U.S. Senator from Delaware
Eli Schenkel (born 1992), Canadian Olympic fencer
Eli Sherbatov (born 1991), Canadian-Israeli ice hockey player
Eli C. D. Shortridge (1830–1908), Governor of North Dakota
Eli Siegel (1902–1978), Latvian-American poet, critic and philosopher
Eli Snyman (born 1996), Zimbabwe-born South African rugby union player
Eli Soriano (1947-2021), televangelist from the Philippines
Eli Stefansky, American-Israeli lecturer
Eli Stowers, American football player
Eli Todd Tappan (1824–1888), American educator, mathematician, author, lawyer and newspaper editor
Eli Terry (1772–1852), inventor and clockmaker in Connecticut
Eli Thayer (1819–1899), member of the US House of Representatives from Massachusetts
Eli "Lucky" Thompson (1924–2005), American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist
Eli Todd (1769–1833), pioneer in the treatment of the mentally ill in Connecticut
Eli Velder (1925–2020), American academic
Eli Walker (born 1992), Welsh rugby union player
Eli Wallach (1915–2014), movie actor
Eli L. Whiteley (1913–1986), American awarded the Medal of Honor
Eli Whitney (1765–1825), American inventor of the cotton gin
Elie Wiesel (אלי ויזל; Eliezer) (1928-2016), Romanian-born American human rights activist, Holocaust writer
Eli Wolf (born 1997), American football player
Elihu Yale (1649–1721), benefactor of Yale University, also known as "Eli Yale"
Eli Yatzpan (born 1965), Israeli television host and comedian
Eli Yishai (אליהו "אלי" ישי, Eliyahu, born 1962), Israeli politician
Eli Zuckerman (born 1973), Israeli Olympic competitive sailor




= Fictional characters

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Eli, on Freaks and Geeks
Eli, from Xena: Warrior Princess
Eli, the eponymous nomad from the 2009 film The Book of Eli
Eli, in the Swedish novel Let the Right One In
Eli Cash, in The Royal Tenenbaums
Eli Clark, a survivor in the video game Identity V
Eli Dingle, on the British soap Emmerdale
Eli Ever, in novels by V.E. Schwab
Eli Gemstone, on The Righteous Gemstones
Eli Gold, on The Good Wife
Eli Loker, on Lie to Me
Eli Mills, from the film Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Eli "Weevil" Navarro on Veronica Mars
Eli Shane, in Slugterra
Eli Stone, title character of the American show Eli Stone
Eli Sunday, in There Will Be Blood
Elias "Eli" Thompson, on the American television series Boardwalk Empire
Eli Vance, in the Half-Life video games
Eli Vanto, in the novel Star Wars: Thrawn
Eli Wallace, on Stargate Universe
Eli Watkins, in Oil!
Eli, known as Liquid Snake, from video game franchise Metal Gear Solid




Surname


Billy Eli (born 1962), American singer and songwriter
Look Tin Eli (1870-1919), Chinese-American businessman
Roger Eli (born 1965), English former footballer




Scandinavian given name


Eli in Scandinavia can also be written as Øli or Ellen.

Eli Arnstad (born 1962), Norwegian civil servant and politician
Eli Fischer-Jørgensen (1911-2010), Danish professor and member of the Danish resistance movement
Eli Kristiansen (born 1933), Norwegian politician
Eli Rygg (born 1955), Norwegian television personality
Eli Skolmen Ryg (born 1936), Norwegian television producer
Eli Sollied Øveraas (born 1949), Norwegian politician




= Fictional characters

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Eli Ayase, from the anime Love Live!
Eli James, a character from the Ghost Whisperer




See also


Ely (surname)
Ely (given name)




References

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