Elin

Where Elin comes from

Elin hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1877
    Elin Pelin born
    Bulgarian writer
  2. 1882
    Elin Wägner born
    Swedish writer, journalist and Suffragette
  3. 1893
    First appearance
    #1,023 among girls, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 2011
    Peak, #662
    428 babies named Elin — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2018
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,190.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Elin Wägner · Swedish writer, journalist and Suffragette, 1882–1949
  • Elin Pelin · Bulgarian writer, 1877–1949
  • Elin Rubensson · Swedish association football player, born 1993
  • Elin Danielson-Gambogi · Finland Swedish painter, 1861–1919
  • Elin Nordegren · Swedish model, born 1980

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.