Elina

Where Elina comes from

The dictionaries list Elina as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1896
    First appearance
    #1,122 among girls, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1991
    Elina Nechayeva born
    Estonian soprano
  3. 1994
    Elina Svitolina born
    Ukrainian tennis player
  4. 2025
    Peak, #764
    355 babies named Elina — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Elina Svitolina · Ukrainian tennis player, born 1994
  • Elina Nechayeva · Estonian soprano, born 1991
  • Elina Born · Estonian singer, born 1994
  • Elina Danielian · Armenian chess player, born 1978
  • Elina Valtonen · Finnish politician, born 1981

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.