paragraph_text: Podrijetlo i značenje imena Ely uvijek je bilo opskurno znanstvenicima i još se uvijek spore o njemu. Najstariji zapis jest latinski tekst Bede Časnog Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, u kojem je ime grada zapisao u obliku Elge.<ref>Giles, J. A. (1843), "chapter XIX", The Complete Works of Venerable Bede, in the original Latin, collated with the Manuscripts, and various printed editions, and accompanied by a new English translation of the Historical Works, and a Life of the Author, vol. 3 part 2, London: Whittaker, preuzeto 10. siječnja 2012., pogl. XIX. Očigledno ime nije latinsko, jer gotovo svi sljedeći latinski tekstovi bilježe ga u obliku Elia,<ref>Crabb, George (1833), [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uVZBAAAAcAAJ Universal historical dictionary: or explanation of the names of persons and places in the departments of biblical, political and eccles. history, mythology, heraldry, biography, bibliography, geography, and numismatics 1], Baldwin and Cradock, preuzeto 12. siječnja 2012., Ely. Eli ili Heli s neorganskim H-. U staroengleskim povljema i u Anglsaskoj kronici zapisan je u obliku Elig.<ref>Earle, John (1865), [ http://books.google.com/books?id=FT0LAAAAYAAJ Two of the Saxon chronicles parallel: with supplementary extracts from the others], Clarendon Press Fairweather, Janet (2005), "Liber Eliensis: a history of the Isle of Ely from the seventh century to the twelfth", Liber Eliensis (The Boydell Press), ISBN 1-84383-015-9, pp. 161, 210, 242 et al.