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Elaine in the US

  1. #182 Peggy
  2. #183 Fred
  3. #184 Albert
  4. #185 Erin
  5. #186 Elaine
  6. #187 Norma
  7. #188 Phyllis
  8. #189 Ralph
  9. #190 Sheila
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Originally an Old French form 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 word meaning ‘hind’ or ‘fawn’.
186th in the U.S. for 2011

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Hundreds of thousands
of people in the U.S have this name
272,377
to be exact (as of February 2011)
Rhode Island
has the most people named Elaine per capita
1945
marked the height of its popularity
100%
0%
67%
55+
26%
30-54
4%
13-29
3%
0-12

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Elaine is most likely to live in California, Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas

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