Nordic Names

Nordic Names

Elin

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Female Female Name

Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Old Swedish Old Swedish
Old Danish Old Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish
Faroe Islands Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

Nordic short form of Elina [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

Related Names

Eelin ♀
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 Finish
Ehlin ♀ Swedish
Elin ♀
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Faroese Finish Norwegian Old Danish Old Norse Old Swedish Swedish
Elín ♀
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 Icelandic
Elinn ♀
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 Norwegian Swedish
Ellin ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Old Danish Swedish
Ellín ♀
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Icelandic
Ellyn ♀
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 Danish Swedish

See also Eilin, Elen, Eli, Ella, Linn, Ninni

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Elinarson Faroe Islands

Female

Elinardóttir Faroe Islands

Combinations

For combinations see ELL (name element)

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Elin
Genitive: Elins
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Elin
Accusative: Elina
Dative: Elini
Genitive: Elinar
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Elin
Genitive: Elinin
Partitive: Eliniä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Elin
Genitive: Elins
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Elin
Genitive: Elins

Name Days

Norway Norway

31 July

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

10 February

Sweden Sweden

31 July

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

Trivia

  • The song Drömmen om Elin ('The dream about Elin') composed by Calle Jularbo (1922) with lyrics by Peter Himmelstrand (1969) was very popular in Sweden and Norway in the early 1970s [9]

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[13]
37171 61976 37161 61954 10 22
Denmark Denmark[14]
4314
n.a.
 4312
n.a.
 2
n.a.
Finland Finland[15]
n.a.
 7762
n.a.
 7757
n.a.
 5
Iceland Iceland[16]
13 16
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[17]
3 10
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[18]
14476
n.a.
 14476
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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Elin (f) Sources: [13][14][18][15]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Elin (f) Sources: [19]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Elin (f)

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Elin (f) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Elin (f)


References

  1. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. ↑ Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  10. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1963)
  11. ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  16. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  17. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  19. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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