Elvina

Where Elvina comes from

Elvina 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. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #836 among girls — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1881
    Peak, #582
    9 babies named Elvina — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1971
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1972
    Elvina Ibru born
    Nigerian actress and on-air personality
  5. 1994
    Elvina Karimova born
    Russian water polo player
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Elvina Karimova · Russian water polo player, born 1994
  • Elvina Ibru · Nigerian actress and on-air personality, born 1972
  • Elvina Kalieva · US American tennis player, born 2003
  • Elvina Kong · Hong Kong television actress and presenter, born 1967
  • Elvina Pallavicini · Italian noble, 1914–2004

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.