Elihu

Hebrew

"Jehovah is God"

Elihu Origin and Meaning

The name Elihu is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "Jehovah is God".

Rarely used in the last two centuries, but might be worth dusting off and holding up to the light.

Elihu Rank in US Top 1000

# 980 in the US

Popularity of the name Elihu

• 1103 Nameberry 2020

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Famous People Named Elihu

• Elihu a young man in the Book of Job
• Elihu of the tribe of Manasseh, follower of David (1 Chr. 12:20)
• Elihu son of Shemaiah, Levite porter (1 Chr. 26:7)
• Elihu Benjamin Washburne 25th US Secretary of State
• Elihu Root US Senator and 38th US Secretary of State
• Elihu Yale Governor of the British East India Company; Welsh namesake of Yale University
• Elihu Thomson English,American engineer and inventor
• Elihu Burritt American diplomat and philanthropist
• Elihu Vedder American symbolist painter
• Elihu Lauterpacht British academic and lawyer
• Elihu Mason Harris American politician from California

The name Elihu in Pop Culture

• Elihu Smails judge in film "Caddyshack"
• Elihu Willsson character in Dashiell Hammett's "Red Harvest"
• Elihu Yale the Atlanta Police Chief in Tom Wolfe's "A Man in Full"
• Elihu "Sam" Nivens character in Robert A. Heinlein's The Puppet Masters
• Elihu Whipple character in the H. P. Lovecraft short story "The Shunned House"
• Elihu Hoopes amnesiac character in Joyce Carol Oates' The Man Without a Shadow