Ell

Girl name variations

Family name origins & meanings

• German and Dutch : metonymic occupational name for a dealer in cloth or a tailor, from Middle High German, Middle Low German el(l)e ‘yardstick’, ‘length of the lower arm’.
• German : from a short form, Edilo, from any of various Germanic personal names composed with adal ‘noble family’.
• English : from the female personal name Ela, a reduced form of Elena and possibly also of Eleanor.