Elina

given name · Finnish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Elina is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 2nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Finnish and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Variant of Hélène/Helena, from Greek Helenē, 'torch' or 'bright one'.

rarermore common
  • RURussia1 in 26◐
  • UAUkraine1 in 30
  • GRGreece1 in 39

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈2.3M ●

across 13 countries

#6 ●

of 16M given names

10 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
583 ●

59M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 39 ◐

Greece

Spellings & scripts●

ЕленаCyrillic · Russian●34M records
ElenaLatin · Spanish●6.6M records
ΕλενηGreek · Greek●827K records
ילנהHebrew · Hebrew●151K records
ᲔლენეGeorgian · Georgian●97K records
리나Hangul · Korean●4.4K records
เรณThai · Thai●3.5K records
ሄለንEthiopic · Amharic●632 records
ԱլենArmenian · Armenian●613 records
হেলেনBengali · Bangla●82 records

21 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Elena in AR Argentina, MX Mexico, ES Spain and 5 more, Елена in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BG Bulgaria and 1 more, Helen in US United States, AU Australia, PH Philippines and 1 more and Helena in BR Brazil, PL Poland, NL Netherlands.

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●

Variant of Hélène/Helena, from Greek Helenē, 'torch' or 'bright one'.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Elina is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#239,876,69313M rec.—#3Елена275
UA Ukraine#210,421,04210M rec.—listedОлена153
IN India#255,827,3001.8M rec.—481Renu203
AR Argentina#502,854,3531.8M rec.—134KElena150
MX Mexico#221,760,6491.4M rec.—7.2KElena227
GB United Kingdom#111,663,9521.6M rec.—38Alan288
PE Peru#32733,299628K rec.——Elena96
AU Australia#17692,457660K rec.—106Helen301
TR Türkiye#131634,80676K rec.—3.3KЕлена60
VE Venezuela#40573,195432K rec.——Elena101
PH Philippines#12507,290485K rec.—27KHelen144
FR France#28506,990746K rec.1 in 134507KHelene362

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Finnish334K42%
  • Spanish158K20%
  • French72K9%
  • Portuguese69K9%
  • English36K5%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Finnish333,96742%
Spanish158,05120%
French72,4789%
Portuguese68,7719%
English36,2595%

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◐

Elina is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name246K records spelled Elina6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Elīna, Élina

  • English given name87K records spelled Elina40 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Latvia, Austria, Netherlands

    Languages: English, German, Latvian

    Also written Elīna, Élina, Eli-Na, Élinà, Èlina

  • French given name76K records spelled Elina14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Belgium

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Élina, Elīna, Elîna, Èlînã, Êlina

  • Swahili given name7.3K records spelled Elina5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania, United States

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

    Also written Elīna

  • Indonesian given name6.3K records spelled Elina3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Elīna

  • Hindi given name4.3K records spelled Elina12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Finland, Malaysia

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu

    Also written এলিনা, Elīna, Èlina, Élina

  • a separate given name3.2K records spelled Elina5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Finland, Russia, Latvia

    Also written Elīna, Ėlina, Èlina, Élina

43 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●

Elina 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 Swedish, Elina är en sidoform till → Elin, också vanlig i Finland. I den finlandssvenska almanackan 10 februari.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In English, Greek/Hindu; pure, intelligent

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

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

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In Estonian, a female given name, variant of Helena (“Helen”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In goh, ulna, ell, elbow

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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●

02040601950200045 · 2013

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Elina in INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024), Ecuador, 1901–2024
Yearrecords
19011
19031
19041
19051
19062
19072
19083
19094
19102
19124
19132
19142
19158
19168
19176
19184
19198
19208
19215
192210
19234
19244
19256
19264
19277
19288
19299
19309
193111
193211
193312
193410
193513
193613
19376
193812
19399
19409
19415
19425
194313
19449
194511
19469
194715
194813
194912
195014
195111
195213
195312
195421
195517
195618
195713
195816
195916
196013
196119
196216
196321
196419
196531
196634
196719
196820
196916
197031
197117
197218
197319
197422
197533
197626
197719
197818
197919
198016
198121
198222
198313
198424
198525
198613
198719
198825
198915
199016
19918
19929
199310
199412
199518
19964
199720
19989
19997
20006
20017
200215
200312
200411
200515
200624
200731
200840
200930
201035
201130
201244
201345
201445
201529
201626
201723
201830
201922
202030
202125
202221
202324
202431

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 122 years between 1901–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Elina Bystritskaya, b. 1928Elina Salo, b. 1936Ellina Zvereva, b. 1960Elina Löwensohn, b. 1966Sofi Oksanen, b. 1977Elina Valtonen, b. 1981Kerttu Niskanen, b. 1988Elina Nechayeva, b. 1991Elina Born, b. 1994Elina Svitolina, b. 1994

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●

Attested in 106 sources across 61 countries.

Official registers attesting Elina
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—87K#25
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—63K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202414K#146
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—12K#357
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20206.8K#3,194
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20206.1K—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—5.1K#635
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—4.7K#3,509
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20224K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—4K#3,193
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)20242.7K#38
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2K#365

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,201 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Elina?
We estimate roughly 2.3 million people bear Elina (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Elina have the most bearers?
Elina is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled елена.
How common is Elina compared with other names?
In Russia, Elina is the 2nd most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
Is Elina a male or female name?
Elina 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 Elina mean?
Recorded meaning: Variant of Hélène/Helena, from Greek Helenē, 'torch' or 'bright one'.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Elina” — the 2nd most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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