FamilyEducation.com
   
 

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Finnish: ornamental name from elo ‘life’, ‘harvest’; ‘grain’. It was adopted by many Finns during the name conversion movement in the 19th and early 20th centuries, especially in southern and western parts of the country.
  2. Hungarian (Élő): from a pet form of Éliás (see Elias).