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Elina

#764 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Helena

Elina has been given to 6,193 babies in the U.S. since 1896. In 2025 it ranked #764 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 358 recorded.

Babies named Elina, 2025

1 in 9,340

Elina over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Elina: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Helena

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Elina means

Elina is a variant of Helena.

Origin, language, and formation

Elina is used in English, Estonian, Finnish and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Helena, Elin and Ellen.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Estonian, Elina is pronounced /ˈelinɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,193 girls were recorded with the name Elina between 1896 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 358 in 2024; its best national rank was #764 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #981 in 2020 to #764 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,061 in 2015 to #764 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Elina?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 9,340
355 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 4,530
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#764
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,474 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Elina sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 1001%
School of 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,474 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Elinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Elina was born before 2015 — so the typical Elina is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,022
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 37.5% of all recorded uses (2,324).

Is Elina rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+24
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+217
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+297
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.43×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
99.2%
Peak was 2024 (358)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#764
2025

Spellings of Elina

Elina is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 20.0% against Elina's 0.08%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Elina is used

Across 2016–2025, Elina was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 2,941 girls, against 1 in 5,066 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in 33,333).

334 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 2,941
  2. 2Washington1 in 3,226
  3. 3New York1 in 3,571
  4. 4Connecticut1 in 3,704
  5. 5Illinois1 in 3,704
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in 3,846
  7. 7Virginia1 in 3,846
  8. 8New Jersey1 in 4,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Elina is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 58% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Elina around the world

Where Elina ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #573
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2012–2025
    #539
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2009–2025
    #885
    in 2025
  • France
    1900–2025
    #160
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #105
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #419
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1946–2012
    #338
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Elina

People whose public names include Elina, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Elina in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Elina. Linked forms have their own page here.

ElinLelaLenaLinaAlinaElenaEleniElineElonaNitsaOlinaElianaEllinaJelinaNelinaYelenaErlina

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Elina by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#764
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 217
Best rank ever
#764
2025
Peak year
2024
358 that year
First recorded
1896
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,193
Count in 2025
355

Names similar to Elina

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

ElidaElinEliciaEliaAdinaChinaElishaLainaElissaElisiaZainaRainaElinorEliyaElisaSerinaTainaElioraReinaLavinaRosinaElifDainaSalina

Names with a curve like Elina

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Elina, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

PromiseMarleighBerkleyKamiyahMaddieAzariahAliannaSariyahKeilyAmayahJenesisAlisson

Sibling names for Elina

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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