Name: Elaine

Gender: Female

Usage: Elaine, of anglo-saxon origin, is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a girl (female) name.

People having the name Elaine are in general originating from Brazil, France, Ireland, Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States of America.

Variants: For another variant of the name Elaine across the world, see Helen.

Meaning: The meaning of the name Elaine is: Torch, Light.

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Numerology of the first name Elaine: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.

The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 1. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: individualistic, determined, pioneering, bold, athletic, independent, active, self-confident.

Interpretation:
Qualities: Leader, Determined
Ruling planet: Sun
Colors: Yellow, Orange, Gold
Gemstones: Topaz, Amber

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The name Elaine is ranked on the 354th position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.

We estimate that there are at least 1859100 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.026% of the population. The name Elaine has six characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.

The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Elaine for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:

The name day of Elaine is 18 August.

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Elaine is a given name, one of the variants of Helen, and may refer to:

  • Elaine Brown, involved with a dispute with the US Government
  • Elaine Chao (born 1953), United States Secretary of Labor
  • Elaine M. Goodwin, British mosaic artist
  • Elaine Hamilton-O'Neal (1920–2010), American artist
  • Elaine Ingham, American microbiologist and soil biology researcher
  • Elaine E Moura, Brazilian football (soccer) player
  • Elaine Riddick Jessie (born c. 1954), woman who underwent forced sterilization.
In fiction
  • Elaine (legend), several Arthurian-legend characters
  • Elaine Liu, Business 15-girl program character
  • Elaine Marley, Monkey Island character
  • Elaine Robinson, important person in The Graduate
  • Elayne Trakand, Wheel of Time character
In television and film
  • Elaine Benes, Seinfeld character
  • Elaine (EastEnders), EastEnders character
  • Elaine Hendrix (born 1970), American actress
  • Elaine May (born 1932), American film director, screenwriter and actress.
  • Elaine Nardo, Taxi character
  • Elaine Paige (born 1948), English actress and singer
  • Elaine Stritch (1925-2014), American actress
  • Elaine Yiu (born 1980), Hong Kong actress

English: originally a version of Helen, but now generally regarded as an independent name. The Greek and Latin forms of the name had a long vowel in the second syllable, which produced this form (as opposed to Ellen) in Old French. In Arthurian legend, Elaine is the name of one of the women who fell in love with Lancelot. The name occurs in this form in the 15th-century English Morte D'Arthur of Thomas Malory. In the 19th century it was popularized in one of Tennyson's Idylls of the King (1859). Most of the characters in Arthurian legend have names that are Celtic in origin, although subjected to heavy French influence, and it has therefore been suggested that Elaine may actually be derived from a Welsh element meaning ‘hind’ or ‘fawn’.

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