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Eelis - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Eelis

[ syll. ee-lis, eel-is ] The boy name Eelis is pronounced IY-LIHS KEY. Eelis' language of origin is Hebrew and it is predominantly used in Finnish. Eelis is a variant of Elijah (English).

Eelis is not often used as a baby boy name. It is listed outside of the top 1000. In 2008, within the family of boy names directly related to Eelis, Elijah (English) was the most commonly used.

Baby names that sound like Eelis include Ilyas (Arabic), Eelusha (Russian), Elijah (English), Ilias (Greek), and Ilija (Slavic).

KEY: approx English pronunciation for Eelis: IY as in "eat (IY.T)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)" ; IH as in "it (IH.T)" ; S as in "sea (S.IY)"


 
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