Elna

Where Elna comes from

Elna 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.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1869
    Elna Borch born
    Danish sculptor
  2. 1883
    First appearance
    #920 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1917
    Peak, #502
    173 babies named Elna — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1932
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #731.
  5. 1968
    Elna Reinach born
    South African tennis player
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Elna Reinach · South African tennis player, born 1968
  • Elna Borch · Danish sculptor, 1869–1950
  • Elna Kiljander · Finnish architect and interior designer, 1889–1970
  • Elna Munch · Danish feminist, 1871–1945
  • Elna Henrikson · Swedish figure skater, born 1900

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.