Elaine name meaning, origin, famous people, and graphic designs
Name: Elaine
Pronunciation: ee-lane
Origin: French, Greek, Welsh
Meaning: Sunray, shining light, bright, young deer
Gender: girl’s name, feminine given name
Story of Elaine 🔗
If one of your favorite lullabies to sing to baby is You Are My Sunshine, we have a name that will brighten up your day! The French girl’s name Elaine means “sun ray”, “shining light”, and “bright”, and it would be an ideal name to give your little ball of light.
This name is a French variant of the popular Greek name Helen. In the King Arthur myth, Elaine is a character who falls in love with Lancelot. Tennyson’s poem Idylls of the King may have promoted the 19th-century revival of the name. With its beautiful meaning, you know that it doesn’t matter if it’s dull and cloudy because Elaine will be there by your side to bring you warmth and comfort.
It has also been suggested that the name might actually be derived from a Welsh word meaning “young deer”.
Common Nicknames for Elaine 🔗
- Laine
- Ellie
- Laney
- Elle
Graphic designs for Elaine 🔗
Elaine is formed using colorful flowers and roses:
Popular people named Elaine 🔗
- Elaine (singer) (born 1999), South African singer
- Elaine Brown (born 1943), American singer, writer, and former Black Panther Party chairwoman
- Elaine Crombie, Australian actress
- Elaine Duran (born 1998), Filipino singer and actress
- Elaine Fifield (1930–1999), Australian ballerina
- Elaine Fine (born 1959), American musician and composer
- Elaine Goble (born 1956), Canadian visual artist
- Elaine M. Goodwin, British mosaic artist
- Elaine Hamilton-O’Neal (1920–2010), American artist
- Elaine Hendrix (born 1970), American actress
- Elaine May (born 1932), American film director, screenwriter and actress
- Elaine Mukheli (born 1999), South African singer
- Elaine Murphy (playwright), Irish playwright
- Elaine Paige (born 1948), English actress and singer
- Elaine Stritch (1925–2014), American actress
- Elaine Yiu (born 1980), Hong Kong actress
- Elaine Sweital Avner (1938-2017), American astronomer
- Elaine Brody (1922–2014), American gerontologist and sociologist
- Elaine Brown (born 1940), involved with a dispute with the US government
- Elaine Campione, Canadian woman who murdered her two children
- Elaine Chan, Hong Kong Olympic swimmer
- Elaine Chao (born 1953), United States Secretary of Labor
- Elaine Cheris (born 1946), American Olympic fencer
- Elaine Denniston (born 1939), American lawyer
- Elaine Esposito (1934–1978), American who had held the record for longest coma
- Elaine Gumbs-Vlaun (born 1944), St Maartener social worker and politician
- Elaine Ingham, American microbiologist and soil biology researcher
- Elaine Luria (born 1975), American politician
- Elaine E Moura (born 1982), Brazilian football (soccer) player
- Elaine Marshall (born 1945), American politician
- Elaine McCoy (born 1946), Canadian politician
- Elaine Murray (born 1954), British politician
- Elaine Murphy, Baroness Murphy (born 1947), British politician
- Elaine Nolan (born 1981), Irish cricketer
- Elaine Ron (1943–2010), American epidemiologist
- Elaine Thompson-Herah (born 1992), Jamaican sprinter