The name Elina is the Finnish, Estonian and Swedish form of Helen. This name is based on the Greek [Helene], which probably means ‘light’ or ‘torch’. In the US, Elina occurs mainly in California.
Elina is a female first name.
The name Elina 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, Elina ranks 944. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Elina. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Elina.
The name Elina is the Finnish, Estonian and Swedish form of Helen. This name is based on the Greek [Helene], which probably means ‘light’ or ‘torch’. In the US, Elina occurs mainly in California.
In the animated film... Barbie: Fairytopia' (2005), the protagonist is named Elina. She is a fairy who is being bullied for not having wings.
You may not know anyone named Elina, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 27 states are home to women and girls named Elina. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Elina living in one state or another. If your name is Elina and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In California, which has the most people named Elina relative to the population, you still have to ask 14,029 women and girls their names before you hear Elina as an answer just once.
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 five letters, the name Elina is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. 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 Elina 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 Elina, you can simply say:
Elephant
Lion
Igloo
Nut
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Elina
Elina
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
E
L
I
N
A
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.
E
L
I
N
A
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. Elina sounds like this:
