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The Ted Knight character from the movie Caddyshack was named Judge Elihu Smalls.
I know this name from Dashiell Hammett's novel Red Harvest; Elihu Willson is a major character. He is an old man who once controlled the town, but is now bedridden. His son is murdered in the first chapter, which sets the rest of the plot in motion.
The meaning cannot be "my God is YAHWEH", because the name doesn't contain the element for "YHWH" (that is usually "yah", "yahu" or something like that). The correct meaning should be something like "He is God" or "He is my God" (you can check here: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Elihu, here: http://books.google.it/books?hl=it&id=FVyHTUQnnBgC&q=Elihu#v=snippet&q=Elihu and here: http://books.google.it/books?id=gt44XaOQotsC&pg=PA150&#v=onepage&q=Elihu ). [noted -ed]
To the person ten years back who didn’t think this name included the element for YHWH, they are incorrect. “El” is the same as “Yah.” See this link for more details on this name.
https://www.abarim-publications.com/Meaning/Elihu.html
Elihu Mason Harris (born 1947 in Los Angeles, California) is an American politician. He served as the mayor of Oakland, California from 1991-1999.
Elihu Yale founded Yale University.
There were two secretaries of state with this name, Washburne and Root.
This name is pronounced ely-hoo in Hebrew.

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