Name meaning & stats
Eli
Eli means “ascended, uplifted” (Hebrew origin). 146,695 US babies since 1940, peak 2012.
What it means
“ascended, uplifted”
HebrewWell documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 2012
146,695 US babies were named Eli between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Eli (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 91% of the family
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2012)