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Elaine

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

1) English form (via an Old French form) of Helene [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

2) English form of a Welsh name meaning 'hind' or 'fawn' [1]

Related Names

Alaine ♀
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 Danish Swedish
Elain ♀
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 Danish Norwegian Swedish
Elaina ♀
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 Danish Finish Swedish
Elaine ♀
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 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Elainey ♀
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Elajne ♀ Swedish
Elayne ♀
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 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Eleina ♀
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 Danish Finish Icelandic Norwegian

See also Laine

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Elaine
Genitive: Elaines
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Elaine
Genitive: Elainen
Partitive: Elainea
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Elaine
Genitive: Elaines
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Elaine
Genitive: Elaines

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 1350 people were named Elaine (percentage of first or only given name: 27 %) [8]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[9]
799 2075 799 2073 0 2
Denmark Denmark[10]
105
n.a.
 105
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Finland Finland[11]
n.a.
 189
n.a.
 189 0 0
Iceland Iceland[12]
3 8
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[13]
0 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[14]
157
n.a.
 157
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Elaine.


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. ↑ Danish Family Search, https://www.danishfamilysearch.dk
  7. ↑ Riksarkivet, Swedish National Archive, Census of 1900 https://riksarkivet.se/
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  9. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  10. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  12. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  13. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  14. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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