Elayne

Where Elayne comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Elayne.

  • Vowel-ended
Elayne through the years
  1. 1912
    First appearance
    #2,979 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1924
    Peak, #731
    102 babies named Elayne, its best rank.
  3. 1935
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #984.
  4. 1940
    Elayne Arrington born
    American mathematician and engineer
  5. 1952
    Elayne Boosler born
    American comedian
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Elayne Boosler · American comedian, born 1952
  • Elayne Arrington · American mathematician and engineer, born 1940
  • Elayne Angel · American body piercer, born 1960
  • Elayne Jones · American timpanist and percussionist, 1928–2022
  • Elayne Harrington · Irish hip hop musician and artist

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.