Elon (name)

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, of the similar meaning "tree".

The given name became more popular in the 2010s (from #3,310 in 2008 to #885 in 2018 for baby boys in the United States) possibly due to the rise to fame of entrepreneur Elon Musk, but he is not Jewish.^[1][2]

Given name[]

• 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 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 Huntington Hooker (1869–1938), American businessman
• Elon Lages Lima (1929–2017), Brazilian mathematician
• Elon Lindenstrauss (born 1970), Israeli mathematician
• Elon Musk (born June 28, 1971), entrepreneur and business magnate.
• Elon James White (born 1978), American journalist

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

Characters[]

• Elon Muskox, a mosaiculture horticultural living sculpture at City Hall in Yellowknife, NWT, Canada

See also[]

• Alon (name)
• Ilan (name)

References[]

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