Elaine is the French form of Helene, a Greek name meaning ‘torch’, ‘ligth’ or ‘moon’. Elaine has only been common as a given name in England since the mid-19th century.
Elaine is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Elaine isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Elaine ranks 552. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 3 were named Elaine. In the entire USA, approximately 254,629 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Elaine. That is 0.08 % of all living Americans.
Elaine is the French form of Helene, a Greek name meaning ‘torch’, ‘ligth’ or ‘moon’. Elaine has only been common as a given name in England since the mid-19th century.
In the U.S.,.... Elaine was quite popular from about 1920 to 1950, but since then the name has become rather rare.
#42 - this is the highest position Elaine has ever reached. Most names never manage to reach such high popularity in even one of the 143 years of records.The last time Elaine reached this top position was in the last century, in 1938, when 4,854 newborn girls were named Elaine. But as our statistics show, Elaine has not always been a popular name: in some years of records, lastly in the year 1885, it was either not given to newborns at all or less than 5 times (a name is only included in the official statistics if it is given at least 5 times in a year). Even today it's not at the peak of its popularity, nevertheless Elaine is still the first choice of some parents every year as the most beautiful first name for their newborn daughter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Elaine was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 678 newborns were given the name Elaine, making them rank #431. Although the name Elaine was more popular in the last century than it is today, it is still common and for some parents it is the name of choice for their daughter. So the chances of an encounter with a young Elaine are still there in our contemporary times.
There are only 537 different women’s names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Elaine is one of them. However, Elaine is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Rhode Island seem to particularly fancy this name – the 2,384 women called Elaine who live here are 0,427% of all female residents and push their name up to #65, easily placing it in the top 100 most common female names in Rhode Island.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter E is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 3.9% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With six letters, the name Elaine is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 3.9%, E as the first letter in girls' names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average - and of all the girls' names that start with an E, Elizabeth is the most common.
If your name is Elaine and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Elaine, you can simply say:
Elephant
Lion
Apple
Igloo
Nut
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Elaine
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Elaine sounds like this:
