Elvis (name)
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Elvis is a given name. It is an Anglicisation of the name of the Irish saint Ailbe of Emly.[1] The earlier meaning of Ailbe is uncertain; it may have been understood in the Middle Ages to derive from Irish ail, 'rock',[2] but this is unlikely to have been its historical meaning. In internet sources, the name is widely claimed to derive from Old English Eall-wīs, meaning "all-wise", but the development of w > v would be irregular and the name is not, in any case, attested in Anglo-Saxon sources;[3] it is possible that this claim is inspired by the existence of the Old Norse mythological name Alvíss.[4] Other alternative etymologies have been proposed for the name, including that it is derived from the surname Elwes, and that it is related to the name Alwyn.
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Usage
Most commonly, it refers to American singer Elvis Presley (1935–1977). It may also be the first name of people who were born before Presley became a household name, as in the case of the former U.S. administrator Elvis Jacob Stahr, Jr. (1916–1998, born the same year as Elvis Presley's father, Vernon Elvis Presley),[5] but in most cases it refers to those who either took the name themselves, as was the case with the UK/born singer and songwriter Elvis Costello, or were given the name by their parents as a tribute to Presley.[citation needed]
According to a recent study by the UK-based People's Dispensary for Sick Animals, the name Elvis ranks eight in the top ten celebrity names chosen for a pet dog in Britain.[6]
People with the name
Sports
- Elvis Abbruscato, (born 1981), Italian footballer
- Elvis Andrus (born 1988), Venezuelan baseball player
- Elvis Brajković (born 1969), retired Croatian football player
- Elvis Dumervil (born 1984), African-American NFL defensive end
- Elvis Fatović (born 1971), Croatian water polo player
- Elvis Grbac (born 1970), former NFL quarterback
- Elvis Hammond (born 1980), Ghanaian footballer playing in Britain
- Elvis Marecos (born 1980), Paraguayan footballer
- Elvis Martínez (born 1970), Venezuelan football defender
- Elvis Peacock (born 1956), former NFL running back
- Elvis J. Perrodin (born 1956) American jockey
- Élvis Alves Pereira (born 1977), Brazilian footballer
- Elvis Scoria (born 1971), Croatian football manager
- Elvis Sinosic (born 1971), Australian Mixed Martial Artist and UFC Veteran
- Elvis Trujillo (born 1983) American jockey
- Elvis Stojko (born 1972), former world champion figure skater from Canada
- Elvis Vermeulen (born 1979), French rugby player
- Elvis Merzļikins (born 1994), Latvian ice hockey player
- Elvis Vieira Araújo (born 1990), Brazilian footballer
- Elvis Khiangte (born 1990), Indian footballer
Music
- Elvis Costello (born 1954), the stage name of Declan Patrick MacManus, an English musician and singer
- Elvis Crespo (born 1971), Puerto Rican Merengue singer
- Elvis Maswanganyi, South African DJ, better known as DJ Mujava
- Elvis Otieno (a.k.a. "Sir Elvis") Kenyan singer of U.S.-style country music.
- Elvis Perkins (born 1976), American singer/songwriter, son of actor Anthony Perkins
- Elvis Presley (1935–1977), American singer, also known as ''The King of Rock & Roll'', or simply ''The King''.
- Elvis J. Kurtovich (born 1962), the stage name of Mirko Srdić, a Bosnian musician and singer[7]
- Elvis Blue (born 1979), stage name of South African Idols' season 6 winner Jan Hoogendyk.
Government
- Elvis Schmiedekamp, the former Cal Fed Vice President of Customer Relations
- Elvis Jacob Stahr, Jr. (1916–1998), former U.S. administrator
Radio
- Elvis Duran (born 1964), host of Elvis Duran and the Morning Show
Journalism
- Elvis Mitchell (born 1958), American film critic, formerly with the New York Times
- Sir George Elvis, a character in the tragic play, Sir Thomas Overbury, by Richard Savage, 1724
- Elvis "EJ" DiMera, a character on the American soap opera Days of Our Lives
- Elvis Cridlington, fireman on the UK children's TV programme Fireman Sam
- Elvis Cole, a private detective in books by Robert Crais
Additional notes
L. Albeus, also Ailbe, Ailbhe,[8][9][10] from Saint Ailbe, the Bishop of Munster who baptised St. David.
St Elvis, Pembrokeshire, place in South Wales,[11] near St David's.
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The name Ailbhe remains a common female name in Ireland.[12]
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- ↑ Iseabail Macleod and Terry Freedman, The Wordsworth Dictionary of First Names: A Concise and Useful Guide to the Origins and Meanings of Over 2000 Names (Ware: Wordsworth, 1995), p. 68; Leslie Dunkling and William Gosling, Everyman's Dictionary of First Names, 3rd edn (London: Dent, 1991), pp. 82-83.
- ↑ S. Baring-Gould and John Fisher. The Lives of the British Saints: The Saints of Wales and Cornwall and Such Irish Saints as Have Dedications in Britain, 4 vols (London: Clark for the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1907-13), I pp. 129-30, accessed from https://archive.org/details/livesofbritishsa01bariuoft 24 November 2010.
- ↑ Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England. 2000–. Available at http://www.pase.ac.uk (accessed 24 November 2010).
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