Elihu

Hebrew

"Jehovah is God"

Elihu Origin and Meaning

Variation of Elijah

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