| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Hebrew |
| Meaning | Oak tree |
| Region of origin | Israel |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Alon, Ilan |
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Elon (אֵילוֹן in Hebrew) is a masculine first name, or Jewish surname, which means "oak tree" in the Hebrew language. Variants of the name include Alon, Eilan, Eilon, and Elan; it can also be a variant spelling of Ilan and Ilon (Hebrew: אילן), of the similar meaning "tree".
The given name became more popular in the 2010s (from #3,310 in 2008 to No. 885 in 2018 for baby boys in the United States) due to the rise to fame of entrepreneur Elon Musk, though he is not Jewish.[1][2]
Given name
- Elon, father of Basemath, wife of Esau in the Bible
- Elon (Judges), biblical leader of the Israelites in the Book of Judges
- Elon R. Brown (1857–1922), American politician
- Elon Howard Eaton (1866–1934), American ornithologist
- Elon J. Farnsworth (1837–1863), American general
- Elon Farnsworth (1799–1877), American lawyer and politician
- Elon Galusha (1790–1856), American preacher
- Elon Ganor (born 1950), Israeli businessman
- Elon Gasper (born 1951), American computer scientist
- Elon Gold (born 1970), American comedian and actor
- Elon Hogsett (1903–2001), American baseball player
- Elon Huntington Hooker (1869–1938), American businessman
- Elon Jones (born 1960), Barbadian cricketer
- Elon Lages Lima (1929–2017), Brazilian mathematician
- Elon Lindenstrauss (born 1970), Israeli mathematician
- Elon Musk (born 1971), business magnate
- Elon James White (born 1978), American journalist
- Eilon Solan (born 1969), Israeli mathematician and sci-fi writer
- Eilona Ariel (born 1958), Israeli filmmaker
Surname
- Amos Elon (1926–2009), Israeli writer
- Ari Elon (born 1950), Israeli writer
- Binyamin Elon (1954–2017), Israeli politician
- Danae Elon (born 1970), Israeli documentary filmmaker
- Emuna Elon (born 1955), Israeli writer
- Menachem Elon (1923–2013), Israeli judge
- Mordechai Elon (born 1959), Israeli rabbi
- Ori Elon (born 1981), Israeli writer
- Naomi Eilan, British philosopher
- Ya'akov Eilon (born 1961), Israeli television presenter and journalist
Characters
- Elon (Legends of Chima), a character in Legends of Chima
- Elon Muskox, a mosaiculture horticultural living sculpture at City Hall in Yellowknife, NWT, Canada
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