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ELMA f : Short form of WILHELMINE or names ending in elma, such as ANSELMA.

ELMAS f : Means "diamond" in Turkish, ultimately from Persian.

ELMER m : From a surname which was derived from the Old English name ÆÐELMÆR. In the United States it is sometimes given in honour of brothers Jonathan (1745...

ELMIRA f : Shortened form of EDELMIRA. It appears in the play 'Tartuffe' (1664) by the French playwright Molière (often spelled in the French style Elmire).

ELMO m : Originally a short form of Germanic names that began with the element helm meaning "helmet, protection". It is also a derivative of ERASMUS, via the o...

ELNATHAN m : Means "God has given" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament this is the name of both a grandfather of king Jehoiachin and a son of Akbor.

ELNORA f : Contracted form of ELEANORA.

ELNUR m : Derived from Azerbaijani el "people, nation" and nur "light".

ELODIA f : Spanish form of ALODIA.

ELOF m : From the Old Norse name Eileifr, which was derived from the elements ei "ever, always" and leifr "descendant, heir".

ELOI m : French and Catalan form of ELIGIUS.

ELOISA f : Italian form of ELOISE.

ELOISE f : From the Old French name Héloïse, which is probably from the Germanic name Helewidis, composed of the elements heil "hale, healthy" and wid "wide". ...

ELON m : Means "oak" in Hebrew. This was the name of one of the ruling judges of the Israelites in the Old Testament.

ELOUAN m : Possibly from a Breton word meaning "light". This name was borne by an obscure 6th-century saint who is now venerated mainly in Brittany and Cornwall.

ELOUISE f : Variant of ELOISE.

ELOV m : Variant of ELOF.

ELOWEN f : Means "elm tree" in Cornish. This is a recently coined Cornish name.

ELOY m : Spanish form of ELIGIUS.

ELOÍSA f : Spanish form of ELOISE.

ELPIDA f : Modern Greek form of ELPIS.

ELPIDIO m : Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of ELPIDIUS.

ELPIDIOS m : Greek form of ELPIDIUS.

ELPIDIUS m : Latinized form of the Greek name Ελπιδιος (Elpidios), which was derived from ελπις (elpis) "hope". This was the name of a 4th-century sai...

ELPIS f : Means "hope" in Greek. In Greek mythology Elpis was the personification of hope. She was the last spirit to remain in the jar after Pandora unleashed ...

ELRIC m : Middle English form of either of the Old English names ÆLFRIC or ÆÐELRIC. Both were rarely used after the Norman conquest.

ELROND m : Means "star dome" in Sindarin. In 'The Lord of the Rings' (1954) by J. R. R. Tolkien, Elrond was the elven ruler of Rivendell.

ELROY m : Altered form of LEROY, using the Spanish definite article el as opposed to the French le.

ELS f : Short form of ELISABETH.

ELSA f : Short form of ELISABETH.