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Elvina

#12,276 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Alvina

Elvina has been given to 2,605 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #12,276 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1920, with 77 recorded.

Babies named Elvina, 2025

1 in 474,000

Elvina over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Elvina: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Alvina

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Elvina means

Elvina is a variant of Alvina.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Elvina is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ɛl.ˈvin.ə/ for Elvina.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Elvina → Alvina → Alvin. The family’s meaning is “elf + friend”, recorded in English with the source elements ælf and wine.

Origin, language, and formation

Elvina is used in Faroese.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alvina.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,605 girls were recorded with the name Elvina between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 77 in 1920; its best national rank was #593 in 1881.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,122 in 2020 to #12,276 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #15,045 in 2015 to #12,276 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 Elvina?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,276
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Elvina 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elvina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Elvinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Elvina was born before 1926 — so the typical Elvina is around 99 today.

Median birth year
1926
About 99 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
20.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
641
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 20.6% of all recorded uses (537).

Is Elvina 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
−3,173
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,154
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,769
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.17×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
9.1%
Peak was 1920 (77)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#593
1881

Spellings of Elvina

Elvina is not the most common spelling — Elaine is, with 25.1% against Elvina's 0.25%.

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 Elvina is used

Across 1910–2025, Elvina was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 180,769 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 11,111
  2. 2South Dakota1 in 50,000
  3. 3Minnesota1 in 100,000
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Iowa1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7New York1 in —
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 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. Elvina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Elvina around the world

Where Elvina 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
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    1900–2025
    #5,385
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2016–2018
    #2,940
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1944–1988
    #657
    in 1988

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, 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. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Elvina

People whose public names include Elvina, 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.

Elvina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,276
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,154
Best rank ever
#593
1881
Peak year
1920
77 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,605
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Elvina

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

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Names with a curve like Elvina

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

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Sibling names for Elvina

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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