Eli Lilly (1838–1898), American soldier, pharmaceutical chemist, and industrialist, founder of Eli Lilly and Company.Eli Langer (born 1967), Canadian artist.Janney (1831–1912), engineer, Confederate soldier Eli Heckscher (1879–1952), Swedish economist.Eli Giannini (born 1956), female Australian architect and director of MGS Architects in Melbourne.Eli Franklin Burton (1879–1948), Canadian physicist.Eli Metcalfe Bruce (1828–1866), philanthropist, financier and politician from Kentucky.Eli Broad (1933–2021), American billionaire, philanthropist, art collector.Eli Whitney Blake (1795–1886), American inventor.Eli Beeding (1928-2013), US Air Force captain and rocket test subject.Eli Bebout (born 1946), Wyoming politician.Eli Abaev (born 1998), American-Israeli basketball player for Hapoel Be'er Sheva in the Israeli Basketball Premier League.Hebrew given name Biblical given name עֵלִי ("ascent") The two names differ in pronunciation as well. Įli is also a short form of names Elisabet, Elin, and Helena in Scandinavia, unrelated to the masculine Hebrew name Eli. 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. In a significant revival of the name's popularity in the early 1970s, it bounced back above rank 400 in 1976. It declined gradually during the late 19th and early-to-mid 20th centuries, falling below rank 700 in 1964. In the United States, the popularity of the given name Eli was hovering around rank 200 in the 1880s. 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"). Įli may alternatively be an unrelated abbreviation of Hebrew names such asĮlijah, Elias, Elisha, Eliezer, Elimelech, etc., all containing the element אלי, meaning "my God" and spelled with the Hebrew letter aleph in the beginning. 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. It is identical to the Arabic name Ali (علي).
Hebrew, English, Norwegian, Danish, SpanishĮlijah, Elias, Elisha, Eliezer, ElimelechĮli as a name has two different meanings, both originating in the Hebrew Bible.Įli can be a male given name of 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.
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