Elina
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Elina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 2nd most common given name. In French, recorded as Variant of Hélène/Helena, from Greek Helenē, 'torch' or 'bright one'.
- RURussia≈1 in 30as Елена(inferred from the name graph)
- BYBelarus≈1 in 35as Елена
- GRGreece1 in 39as Ελένη
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Elina itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #2 (measured from records)
- 10 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 644 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 30 (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,700,000 named Елена, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Russia, est., as Елена
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
20 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Елена in RU Russia, BY Belarus, FI Finland, Helen in US United States, Олена in UA Ukraine and Helena in BR Brazil.
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)
Variant of Hélène/Helena, from Greek Helenē, 'torch' or 'bright one'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
How Elina is read(measured from records)
Elina is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish40%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Elina in Spanish.
- English12%
Greek/Hindu; pure, intelligent
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- French12%
- Russian5.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Elina in Russian.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Elina 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #2 | ≈4,700,000 est. | ≈1 in 30 | #3 | Елена | 309 |
| UA Ukraine | #2 | ≈1,100,000 est. | ≈1 in 41 | listed | Олена | 174 |
| BR Brazil | #17 | 366,186as Helena | 1 in 578 | 366K | Helena | 227 |
| US United States | #26 | 284,872as Alan | 1 in 1.2K | 483K | Helen | 644 |
| GR Greece | #9 | 272,590as Ελένη | 1 in 39 | 520K | Ελενη | 198 |
| BY Belarus | #1 | ≈270,000 est. | ≈1 in 35 | 39 | Елена | 81 |
| FI Finland | #1 | 117,524as Helena | 1 in 47 | 175K | Елена | 116 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); ELSTAT — population given names; According to a survey conducted by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT), the most popular male and female names i; Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Elina is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Elina är en sidoform till → Elin, också vanlig i Finland. I den finlandssvenska almanackan 10 februari.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, weibl. Vom., nordische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Estonian, a female given name, variant of Helena (“Helen”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In goh, ulna, ell, elbow
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Elina Bystritskayab. 1928RUSoviet-Russian actress (1928–2019)
- Elina Salob. 1936FIFinnish actress
- Ellina Zverevab. 1960BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian athlete
- Elina Löwensohnb. 1966RORomanian-American actress
- Sofi Oksanenb. 1977FInot in their usual nameFinnish-Estonian writer (born 1977)
- Elina Valtonenb. 1981FIFinnish politician (born 1981)
- Kerttu Niskanenb. 1988FInot in their usual nameFinnish cross-country skier
- Elina Nechayevab. 1991EEEstonian soprano (born 1991)
- Elina Bornb. 1994EEEstonian singer (born 1994)
- Elina Svitolinab. 1994UAUkrainian tennis player (born 1994)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 110 sources across 62 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 87K | #13 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 63K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6.8K | #3,194 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 4.7K | #3,509 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 4K | #3,193 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 355 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 79 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 13 | #3,194 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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
- What does the name Elina mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Hélène/Helena, from Greek Helenē, 'torch' or 'bright one'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- In which country does Elina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.7 million people named Елена in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- What are other forms of the name Elina?
- In the etymology graph, Elena, Helen and Elaine are forms of the same name in other languages; Ella, Leena and Heli are recorded short or pet forms.
- Is Elina a male or female name?
- Elina 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.
- How common is the name Elina?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 366,186 people named Helena in 2022, about 1 in 578 residents.
- How common is Elina compared with other names?
- In Russia, Elina is the 2nd most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/elinaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Elina” — the 2nd most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.