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Eline

#7,591 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Helen

Eline has been given to 390 babies in the U.S. since 1903. In 2025 it ranked #7,591 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Eline, 2025

1 in 237,000

Eline over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eline: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Helen

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Eline means

Eline is a form of Helen.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Eline → Helen → Helena → Ἑλένη. The family’s meaning is “to shine, warm, smoulder, burn”, recorded in Ancient Greek with the source elements swel-.

Origin, language, and formation

Eline is used in Dutch and Norwegian Nynorsk.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Helen and Helene.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Dutch, Eline is pronounced /ˌeːˈli.nə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 390 girls were recorded with the name Eline between 1903 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 25 in 2020; its best national rank was #1,872 in 1903.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,053 in 2020 to #7,591 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #13,404 in 2015 to #7,591 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 Eline?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 115,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,591
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eline 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 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eline. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Elines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eline was born before 2011 — so the typical Eline is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
31.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
56.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
246
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Choose a decade

2020s — 31.3% of all recorded uses (122).

Is Eline 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
−1,586
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,538
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+5,813
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
56.0%
Peak was 2020 (25)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,872
1903

Spellings of Eline

Eline is not the most common spelling — Alice is, with 22.3% against Eline's 0.01%.

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 Eline is used

Across 1910–2025, Eline was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,143,770 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

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. Eline has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Eline around the world

Where Eline 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
    2000–2025
    #2,788
    in 2025
  • France
    1900–2025
    #140
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #58
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2012–2024
    #1,023
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1995–2011
    #840
    in 2011

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

Eline by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,591
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,538
Best rank ever
#1,872
1903
Peak year
2020
25 that year
First recorded
1903
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
390
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Eline

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

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Sibling names for Eline

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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