Elin

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Ellyn in US United States, Elín in IS Iceland and Элин in RU Russia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Elin is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name24K records spelled Elin11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, Peru, United States

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Elín, Élin, Elìn, Eliñ, Elïn

• Indonesian given name11K records spelled Elin4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, Sweden, United States

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written 'Elin, Elín

• a separate given name3.4K records spelled Elin3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Norway, Sweden, United States, United Kingdom

  Also written Elín, Èlin

• a separate given name2.0K records spelled Elin3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Sweden, Norway, India

  Also written Elín, Élin

• Italian given name1.0K records spelled Elin3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Sweden, Norway, United States, United Kingdom

  Also written Elín, Élin

46 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Elin is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In German, weibl. Vom., nordische Form von

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• Welsh: variant of jElen.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

• In Russian, Tevriz Elin. 15th Century.

  as a word·A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

• In kw, elbow

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Breton, coude

  as a word·Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 120 years between 1893–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Elin Danielson-Gambogib. 1861FIFinland Swedish painter (1861–1919)
• Elin Pelinb. 1877BGBulgarian writer (1877-1949)
• Elin Wägnerb. 1882SESwedish writer, journalist and Suffragette (1882–1949)
• Elin Reimer-Nielsenb. 1928DKDanish actress (1928-2022)
• Elín Petersdóttirb. 1972FIIcelandic-Finnish actor
• Linda Ulvaeusb. 1973SEnot in their usual nameSwedish singer and actress
• Julia Dufveniusb. 1975SEnot in their usual nameSwedish actress
• Elin Topuzakovb. 1977BGBulgarian footballer
• Elin Nordegrenb. 1980SESwedish model
• Elin Rubenssonb. 1993SESwedish association football player

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 849 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Elin?

We estimate roughly 96 thousand people bear Elin (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.

In which country does Elin have the most bearers?

We estimate about 63 thousand people bear Elin in Sweden, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled elin.

Where is Elin most common?

Elin is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 163 people carrying it.

How common is Elin compared with other names?

In Sweden, Elin is the 26th most common given name of 36,824 given names recorded there.

Is Elin a male or female name?

Elin is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Elin mean?

Recorded meaning: organ (larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions)