Elina

Elina comes from Greek, and it belongs to the wide family that grows out of Helen. That older name is usually traced to a root meaning torch or light, and Elina holds on to that sense: światło, jasność. The link to Helen is not decorative. It is the reason the name means anything at all.

Helen herself was the most fought-over woman in Greek story, and the name outlived her legend by many centuries. Elina is one of its softer forms, common in Finland and around the Baltic, where it settled early. It stays short and easy to spell.

The meaning sits close to the surface. Light was not attached to Elina long after the fact; it lives in the Greek root. When someone writes Elina on a form at the urząd, they are setting down an old word for a torch.