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The origin of the name Eladah is Hebrew

This is how Eladah is written in Hebrew:

אֶלְעָדָה=‘El`adah

The  biblical meaning of the name Eladah is:

According to
Roswell Dwight Hitchcock hitchcock’s dictionary of bible names (1869)	“the eternity of God”
Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Gesenius Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon (1846)	“whom God puts on”
James Strong Strong’s Concordance (1890)	“God has decked“

Eladah was the son of Ephraim

The name Eladah appears in the bible in the following verse:

1 Chronicles 7:20 KJV
“And the sons of Ephraim; Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eladah his son, and Tahath his son,”