Where the spelling 일라이 comes from
NIKL’s list of loanword spellings (외래어 표기 용례) gives 일라이 for Eli.
People in the list with this given name:
- 로즌바움, 일라이 — Rosenbaum, Eli M.
- 고레이, 일라이 — Goree, Eli
- 더슈위츠, 일라이 — Dershwitz, Eli
Sound by sound
E일li라이
Why it is spelled this way
- Matches the spelling in the National Institute of Korean Language loanword usage list.
What Eli means
Eli by the numbers
- US Social Security birth records, 2000–2025: No. 120, 124,848 babies (0.6% girls, 99.4% boys).
- NIKL usage list — people with the given name 일라이: 3.
Korean names for Eli
These are the converter’s results for Eli as a boy’s name — real Korean given names from the Supreme Court’s birth statistics (2008–2025).
Sounds like mine
Closest in sound among real Korean names.
김이담Kim IdamUsed for boys and girls · 60% sound match
김이안Kim IanBoy’s name · 57% sound match
김이도Kim IdoBoy’s name · 57% sound match
No surname given, so we picked 김, one of the three most common Korean surnames.
Sources: US Social Security Administration baby names · NIKL loanword usage list · Loanword Orthography (외래어 표기법) · Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Supreme Court of Korea birth statistics