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Elina

A Greek name meaning "light" or "torch," a form of Helen. Most Poles have never met one, but that's shifting: after years near zero it's been climbing through the 2020s, given to a few dozen girls a year now.

Elina Pronunciation

Elina is pronounced e-LEE-nah (/ɛˈlina/).

Alive in 2025
1,930
Newborns 2025
34
National rank
#714

What Elina means

Where Elina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

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.

How many people are named Elina

1 in 11681 women in Poland is named Elina. 1,930 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #714 among female names.

People with the name Elina 2019 → 2025
1,930 +1,609 since 2019
2020 370 +49
2021 418 +48
2022 530 +112
2023 1,676 +1,146
2024 1,808 +132
2025 1,930 +122

Elina's popularity over time

34 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #421 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2016.

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34 newborns with the name Elina in 2025
national rank #421 that year

Where parents choose Elina

Elina is most popular in Lubusz, 196% above the national average (7 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+100%) and Masovian (+84%). It is least common in Kuyavian-Pomeranian and West Pomeranian, 62% and 50% below average respectively.

Chosen most
  • Lubusz
    +196%
    1 in 7,094 babies
  • Lower Silesian
    +100%
    1 in 10,476 babies
  • Masovian
    +84%
    1 in 11,428 babies
Chosen least
  • Kuyavian-Pomeranian
    −62%
    1 in 54,690 babies
  • West Pomeranian
    −50%
    1 in 42,213 babies
  • Pomeranian
    −29%
    1 in 29,464 babies

Elina as a middle name

Elina is a first name for 1,930 women in Poland and a middle name for another 36, a 98/2 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1158th, between Elida (36) and Fabienne (36).

As a first name
1,930
As a middle name
36
first name 98% middle name 2%
Middle-name ranking women

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