Elke

el-kah

Dutch, German, and Frisian, diminutive of Adelheid

"noble"

Elke Origin and Meaning

The name Elke is a girl's name of German, Dutch origin meaning "noble".

Though she has long stood on her own, Elke has many longer cross-cultural connections, to the Dutch/German/Scandinavian Adelheid and Alice and the English Adelaide, as a feminine version of Elkanah and as a Yiddish form of Eleanor.

The name became best known in the U.S. via the Berlin-born Elke Sommer,a popular actress and pin-up girl in the 1960s.

Elke Popularity

• 1142 Nameberry 2024

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Famous People Named Elke

• Elke Sommer German actress
• Elke Cordelia Neidhardt Australian actress
• Elke Clijsters Belgian tennis player
• Elke Aberle German actress

Elke in Pop Culture

• Elke Haien character in The Rider on the White Horse by Theodor Storm
• Elke Elkberg Carl's Swedish girlfriend on animated series Jimmy Neutron
• The elk or wapiti (Cervus canadensis) is one of the largest species of the Cervidae or deer family in the world and one of the largest land mammals in North America and eastern Asia.