Given name · also Elin
Elna
Elna is a feminine given name from Elin. It is used in Swedish, Danish, Finnish, and Faroese.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Elna comes from Elin, and ultimately from Helena.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1883. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Elna through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 4,478
- 0 boys · 4,478 girls
- Most popular year
- 1917
- 173 babies
- 2025
- 9
- #10,337 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +47%
- Rising
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 9 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 10,337 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 173 in 1917. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,489 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Elna’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Elna has a related form in Elina.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Elna
- Elna ReinachSouth African tennis playerborn 1968
- Elna BorchDanish sculptor (1869-1950)
- Elna KiljanderFinnish architect and interior designer (1889-1970)
- Elna MunchDanish feminist (1871-1945)
- Elna MontgomerySwedish figure skater1885–1981
- Elna HenriksonSwedish figure skater1900
- Camilla OdhnoffSwedish botanist and social democratic politician (1928-2013)
- Elna ØrnbergDanish actress (1890-1969)
- Elna GistedtSwedish actress1895–1982
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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