Elin
given name · Latin script
Meaning: organ (larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/e:lin/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Elin is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the 22nd most common given name.
- SESweden1 in 163(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 385
- DKDenmark1 in 1.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 308 (measured from records)
- 1 in 163 (inferred from the name graph)
62,552 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ellyn in US United States, FI Finland and Elín in IS Iceland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
organ (larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Elin counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | #22 | 62,552 | 1 in 163 | 63K | Elin | 143 |
| NO Norway | #57 | 14,200 | 1 in 385 | 48K | Elin | 115 |
| CN China | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 115K | — | Elin | 14 |
| US United States | — | 5,072 | 1 in 66K | 4.8K | Ellyn | 308 |
| DK Denmark | #314 | 4,390 | 1 in 1.3K | 4.4K | Elin | 78 |
| FI Finland | — | 1,859 | 1 in 3K | 7.9K | Ellyn | 20 |
| IS Iceland | #131 | 1,589 | 1 in 221 | 1.6K | Elín | 61 |
62,552 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Elin is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, weibl. Vom., nordische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Welsh: variant of jElen.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Russian, Tevriz Elin. 15th Century.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In kw, elbow
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, coude
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Elin Danielson-Gambogib. 1861FIFinland Swedish painter (1861–1919)
- Elin Pelinb. 1877BGBulgarian writer (1877-1949)
- Elin Wägnerb. 1882SESwedish writer, journalist and Suffragette (1882–1949)
- Elin Reimer-Nielsenb. 1928DKDanish actress (1928-2022)
- Elín Petersdóttirb. 1972FIIcelandic-Finnish actor
- Linda Ulvaeusb. 1973SEnot in their usual nameSwedish singer and actress
- Julia Dufveniusb. 1975SEnot in their usual nameSwedish actress
- Elin Topuzakovb. 1977BGBulgarian footballer
- Elin Nordegrenb. 1980SESwedish model
- Elin Rubenssonb. 1993SESwedish association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 86 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 63K | #54 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 48K | #64 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 37K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 14K | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 7.9K | #250 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.8K | #3,874 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4.4K | #153 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 1.9K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 313 | #3,874 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 53 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 2025 | 15 | — |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 13 | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Elin?
- A machine transcription gives /e:lin/ (IPA) for Swedish.
- Is Elin a male or female name?
- Elin is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Elin mean, and where does it come from?
- organ (larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Elin have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 63 thousand people named Elin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled elin.
- Where is Elin most common?
- Elin is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 163 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Elin?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 62,552 people named Elin, about 1 in 163 residents.
- How common is Elin compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Elin is the 22nd most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.
- What are other forms of the name Elin?
- In the etymology graph, Elena, Helen and Elaine are forms of the same name in other languages; Ella, Eli and Lene are recorded short or pet forms.
What do you want to know about Elin?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/elinThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Elin” — the 22nd most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.