# Elvis - the given name **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 3, 2016, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elvis-the-given-name/742076 "2016-01-03T17:11:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2016, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elvis-the-given-name/742076/21 "2016-01-05T16:52:45Z")
There was an old custodian at my high school named “Elmis”, with an M. He was older than Elvis Presley, even though Elvis was dead 20 years by then. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2016, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elvis-the-given-name/742076/22 "2016-01-05T17:27:42Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Elvis is the Anglicized version of “Ailbe”, the name of an Irish saint. And another variation of it is “Albus” - as in Dumbledore. The more you know… ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2016, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elvis-the-given-name/742076/23 "2016-01-05T18:14:04Z")
> [@Wallaby](#): > > Don’t think Judas did much for his name’s popularity… Judas certainly isn’t common, but some other variants - Jude and Judah, specifically - are fairly common. ---
**Author:** ![somepumpkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@somepumpkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/somepumpkin)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2016, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elvis-the-given-name/742076/24 "2016-01-05T22:24:27Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > \*"“Elvis” is not Latin and never has been, so the faux-Latin “Elvi” is not justified. And if Elvis was Latin, this would be a 3rd-declension i-stem so the plural would be “Elves” (pronounced as two syllables). > > Elvis is the Anglicized version of “Ailbe”, the name of an Irish saint. So you should form the plural according to normal English rules, e.g., “Elvises”."\* > > [https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-proper-plural-form-of-Elvis](https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-proper-plural-form-of-Elvis) > > \*After all the crap I’ve taken over “No problemo”, I deserve a chance to be a pissant too. 🙂 Sure. But isn’t [El Vez](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0_tGKvxd9I&list=RDQEO_AEhUg3I&index=2) of latin origin? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elvis-the-given-name/742076/25 "2016-01-06T03:43:58Z")
> [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > Doesn’t even have to be a real person. The name [Madison](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_(name)) for a girl, almost unknown before 1985, rose after the 1984 movie _Splash_ to be the second most popular girl’s name in the U.S. The stupidest part of this is that “Madison” derives from “Matt’s son”, but because of that movie is pretty much always a girl’s name. (Alison, by the way, is from a French diminutive of Alice, not Al’s son) ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elvis-the-given-name/742076/26 "2016-01-06T08:11:40Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > Judas certainly isn’t common, but some other variants - Jude and Judah, specifically - are fairly common. And any Christian Thaddeus has also been baptized after a Judas. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elvis-the-given-name/742076.md?page=1)