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How popular is the name Elin?
Births per year, rank history and how many Elins are alive today.
Elin (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 872nd in 2025 with 40 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2003, when 106 babies were given the name, the 354th most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 888 in 2023 before climbing back to the 872nd place it holds today. Numbers have been falling in recent years.
The Elin you are most likely to meet is around 16 years old. Half of all Elins born in England and Wales are between 12 and 27, and there are at least 2,600 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Elin - on average, only one in every 122 such rooms contains a Elin.
How many babies are named Elin each year?
Where does Elin rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Elin most popular?
Elin peaked in 2003, when 106 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Elin?
At least 2,600 people named Elin born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Elin?
Most living Elins are between 12 and 27; the most common age is about 16.
Is Elin becoming more or less popular?
Declining: numbers have been falling in recent years.