Elina: Meaning, origin and popularity

Pronounced eh-LEE-nuh · 3 syllables

First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1898. Variant of Helena (“Helen”).

How popular is Elina?

Elina was the #764 name in the US in 2025, given to 355 babies. It’s rising: up 43% on 2011–2015. It peaked around 2020.

Babies named Elina in the US by five-year period, relative to its peak (around 2020).

Half of US adults named Elina are older than 25; most are between 18 and 58. (Estimated from US births by year and life tables.)

Names that real brothers and sisters of people named Elina have, from family records on Wikidata, most common first.

Chosen by the same families or with a similar style and era.

Elina is pronounced eh-LEE-nuh.

Elina was the #764 name in the US in 2025, given to 355 babies. It’s rising: up 43% on 2011–2015. It peaked around 2020.

Half of US adults named Elina are older than 25. Most are between 18 and 58.