Elina
#764 for girls in 2025, 355 births
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 355 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,193since 1896
Elina over time
Rank among girls' names. Elina has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #764 | 355 |
| 2024 | #787 | 358 |
| 2023 | #871 | 308 |
| 2022 | #854 | 327 |
| 2021 | #956 | 272 |
| 2020 | #981 | 260 |
| 2019 | #922 | 287 |
| 2018 | #999 | 261 |
| 2017 | #1,172 | 210 |
| 2016 | #1,061 | 246 |
| 2015 | #1,055 | 249 |
| 2014 | #1,104 | 231 |
| 2013 | #1,121 | 216 |
| 2012 | #1,167 | 210 |
| 2011 | #1,061 | 232 |
| 2010 | #1,296 | 182 |
| 2009 | #1,167 | 215 |
| 2008 | #1,395 | 170 |
| 2007 | #1,510 | 153 |
| 2006 | #1,495 | 147 |
| 2005 | #1,778 | 110 |
| 2004 | #2,286 | 76 |
| 2003 | #2,439 | 67 |
| 2002 | #2,673 | 57 |
| 2001 | #2,571 | 59 |
| 2000 | #2,480 | 61 |
| 1999 | #3,148 | 41 |
| 1998 | #3,015 | 42 |
| 1997 | #3,302 | 35 |
| 1996 | #4,739 | 21 |
| 1995 | #2,788 | 43 |
| 1994 | #3,372 | 33 |
| 1993 | #3,776 | 28 |
| 1992 | #4,236 | 24 |
| 1991 | #4,059 | 25 |
| 1990 | #4,868 | 19 |
| 1989 | #5,049 | 17 |
| 1988 | #3,893 | 23 |
| 1987 | #5,613 | 13 |
| 1986 | #3,757 | 22 |
| 1985 | #4,455 | 17 |
| 1984 | #3,233 | 26 |
| 1983 | #3,949 | 19 |
| 1982 | #5,209 | 13 |
| 1981 | #4,344 | 17 |
| 1980 | #4,978 | 14 |
| 1979 | #4,231 | 17 |
| 1978 | #3,777 | 19 |
| 1977 | #5,213 | 12 |
| 1976 | #4,363 | 14 |
| 1975 | #4,854 | 12 |
| 1974 | #5,011 | 11 |
| 1973 | #6,080 | 8 |
| 1972 | — | |
| 1971 | #6,006 | 8 |
| 1970 | #5,413 | 9 |
| 1969 | #4,198 | 12 |
| 1968 | #4,222 | 11 |
| 1967 | #4,625 | 9 |
| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 |
| 1965 | #5,289 | 7 |
| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 |
| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 |
| 1962 | — | |
| 1961 | #4,546 | 9 |
| 1960 | — | |
| 1959 | #5,031 | 7 |
| 1958 | — | |
| 1957 | — | |
| 1956 | #4,467 | 8 |
| 1955 | — | |
| 1954 | #4,655 | 7 |
| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 |
| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 |
| 1951 | #5,414 | 5 |
| 1950 | — | |
| 1949 | #4,673 | 6 |
| 1948 | — | |
| 1947 | — | |
| 1946 | — | |
| 1945 | — | |
| 1944 | — | |
| 1943 | #4,196 | 6 |
| 1942 | #4,622 | 5 |
| 1941 | — | |
| 1940 | — | |
| 1939 | #3,145 | 8 |
| 1938 | #4,342 | 5 |
| 1937 | — | |
| 1936 | #4,181 | 5 |
| 1935 | — | |
| 1934 | — | |
| 1933 | #4,218 | 5 |
| 1932 | — | |
| 1931 | #2,750 | 10 |
| 1930 | #4,550 | 5 |
| 1929 | — | |
| 1928 | #4,725 | 5 |
| 1927 | — | |
| 1926 | — | |
| 1925 | #4,973 | 5 |
| 1924 | — | |
| 1923 | #3,971 | 7 |
| 1922 | #2,958 | 11 |
| 1921 | #5,099 | 5 |
| 1920 | — | |
| 1919 | — | |
| 1918 | #2,519 | 13 |
| 1917 | #3,092 | 9 |
| 1916 | #3,552 | 7 |
| 1915 | #3,434 | 7 |
| 1914 | — | |
| 1913 | #2,164 | 9 |
| 1912 | #2,634 | 6 |
| 1911 | — | |
| 1910 | — | |
| 1909 | — | |
| 1908 | — | |
| 1907 | — | |
| 1906 | — | |
| 1905 | — | |
| 1904 | — | |
| 1903 | #1,440 | 7 |
| 1902 | — | |
| 1901 | #1,679 | 5 |
| 1900 | #1,932 | 5 |
| 1899 | — | |
| 1898 | #1,502 | 6 |
| 1897 | — | |
| 1896 | #1,122 | 9 |
| 1895 | — | |
| 1894 | — | |
| 1893 | — | |
| 1892 | — | |
| 1891 | — | |
| 1890 | — | |
| 1889 | — | |
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| 1887 | — | |
| 1886 | — | |
| 1885 | — | |
| 1884 | — | |
| 1883 | — | |
| 1882 | — | |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five girls were named Elina! It came in at #1,122, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1897, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Elina is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#629 · 1 in 3,295
- Illinois#743 · 1 in 3,917
- Washington#773 · 1 in 3,806
- California#834 · 1 in 4,978
- Florida#987 · 1 in 6,125
Best ever in a state: #364 in Connecticut, 2020.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | #629 | 28 | 1 in 3,295 |
| Illinois | #743 | 15 | 1 in 3,917 |
| Washington | #773 | 8 | 1 in 3,806 |
| California | #834 | 42 | 1 in 4,978 |
| Florida | #987 | 13 | 1 in 6,125 |
| New Jersey | #996 | 6 | 1 in 6,086 |
| North Carolina | #1,055 | 7 | 1 in 6,279 |
| Arizona | #1,108 | 5 | 1 in 6,195 |
| Virginia | #1,158 | 5 | 1 in 7,277 |
| Texas | #1,162 | 21 | 1 in 7,539 |
| Ohio | #1,419 | 5 | 1 in 10,315 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Elina
- 23 spots since 2024 (#787 → #764)
- 217 spots since 2020 (#981 → #764)
- 291 spots since 2015 (#1,055 → #764)
- Biggest jump: 173 spots in 2018 (#1,172 → #999)
- Biggest drop: 59 spots in 2020 (#922 → #981)
- Debuted 1896
- Peaked 2025 at #764 (355 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 2018–2025
- Highest: 1 in 4,526 girls born in 2024 were named Elina (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,528 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #764 in 2025, was only 1 in 4,528 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 37.5% of all girls named Elina (2,324) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 15 | #1,122 (1896) | #1,312 |
| 1900s | 17 | #1,440 (1903) | #1,684 |
| 1910s | 51 | #2,164 (1913) | #2,899 |
| 1920s | 33 | #2,958 (1922) | #4,345 |
| 1930s | 38 | #2,750 (1931) | #3,864 |
| 1940s | 17 | #4,196 (1943) | #4,497 |
| 1950s | 37 | #4,467 (1956) | #5,134 |
| 1960s | 64 | #4,198 (1969) | #5,256 |
| 1970s | 110 | #3,777 (1978) | #4,994 |
| 1980s | 181 | #3,233 (1984) | #4,448 |
| 1990s | 311 | #2,788 (1995) | #3,730 |
| 2000s | 1,115 | #1,167 (2009) | #1,979 |
| 2010s | 2,324 | #922 (2019) | #1,096 |
| 2020s | 1,880 | #764 (2025) | #869 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Elina in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 8,386 of them was named Elina, which outranked 94.0% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,162Promise211
- #1,162Shania211
- #1,162Xiomara211
- #1,167Elina210
- #1,167Adela210
- #1,167Anais210
- #1,167Cassie210
- #1,174Abbygail209
- #1,174Addilynn209
- #1,174Amia209
Tied with 6 names at #1,167; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.