Elina
Elina was given to 355 girls in 2025, #764 among girls’ names; 6,193 Americans have been recorded with it since 1896 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,970 Americans named Elina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Elina mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Elina is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Elina?
#764 among girls’ names, 2025
Elina rose from #1,061 in 2015 to #764 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.14 to 0.22 per 1,000.
358 babies in 2024, the peak
Elina peaked in 2024, when 358 girls were given it, #788 among girls’ names. The 355 births of 2025 are 99% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 355 | #764 | 0.22 |
| 2024 | 358 | #788 | 0.22 |
| 2023 | 308 | #874 | 0.19 |
| 2022 | 327 | #854 | 0.20 |
| 2021 | 272 | #957 | 0.17 |
| 2020 | 260 | #981 | 0.16 |
| 2019 | 287 | #924 | 0.17 |
| 2018 | 261 | #1,000 | 0.15 |
| 2017 | 210 | #1,175 | 0.12 |
| 2016 | 246 | #1,061 | 0.14 |
Every recorded year (94)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 249 | #1,061 | 0.14 |
| 2014 | 231 | #1,104 | 0.13 |
| 2013 | 216 | #1,121 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 210 | #1,170 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 232 | #1,062 | 0.13 |
| 2010 | 182 | #1,297 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 215 | #1,169 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 170 | #1,399 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 153 | #1,510 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 147 | #1,498 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 110 | #1,780 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 76 | #2,293 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 67 | #2,443 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 57 | #2,679 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 59 | #2,571 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 61 | #2,483 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 41 | #3,153 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 42 | #3,028 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 35 | #3,309 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,774 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 43 | #2,797 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 33 | #3,382 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 28 | #3,804 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,270 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,096 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,915 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,103 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 23 | #3,925 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,682 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,788 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,506 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,255 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 19 | #3,988 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,293 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,390 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,049 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,279 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,817 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,286 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,420 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 12 | #4,939 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,099 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,236 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,168 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,512 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,251 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,280 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,718 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,857 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,441 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,218 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,884 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,637 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,186 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,561 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,794 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,913 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,800 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,642 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,839 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,325 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,828 | under 0.01 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,214 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,512 | under 0.01 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,382 | under 0.01 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,396 | under 0.01 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,830 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,743 | under 0.01 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,920 | under 0.01 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,186 | under 0.01 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,087 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 11 | #3,015 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,331 | under 0.01 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,563 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,163 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,650 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,533 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 9 | #2,201 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,730 | 0.01 |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,483 | 0.03 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,755 | 0.02 |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,013 | 0.02 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,562 | 0.02 |
| 1896 | 9 | #1,152 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Elina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 94 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Elina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elina, and how old are they?
5,970 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 6,193 Americans ever recorded as Elina. The median Elina alive today is 11 years old; half are between 5 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 6,769 people named Elina (6,756 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,190 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 14 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 50 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 157 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 351 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,840 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,560 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Elina born?
The states with the most babies named Elina are California, Texas and Florida, with 40% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 62 | #533 | 1.6× |
| Texas | 38 | #785 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 30 | #586 | 0.9× |
| New York | 19 | #837 | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 17 | #579 | 0.9× |
| Washington | 13 | #522 | 1.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #774 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 12 | #795 | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 11 | #823 | 0.4× |
| Massachusetts | 11 | #491 | 0.8× |
Where Elina is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Elina is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Elina with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 536,683 babies since 1880, Elina is the eighth most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 355 of their 19,176 babies (1.9%), the seventh most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Elina
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Elina and names like it
- Compare Elina and ElaineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sElina peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elina since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Elina.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Elina alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.