Comments for the name Elin

It's pronounced É-lin (in English the nearest would be AY-lin).

Elin Nordegren is Tiger Woods wife's name.

This is my sister's middle name, my cousin's name and one of my mother's middle names. So on Elin's nameday we have a big party!

I think it could be a good variant of the typical 'Ellen', or even a nickname for Melinda. I don't care for Mel or Linda or anything, but Elin is cute.

Also a Welsh name, derived from Helen. [noted -ed]

I think this is a beautiful name. This is one of my sister's favorite names, though she spells it Eilan, as in the main character of the Fantasy novel The Forest House by Marion Zimmer Bradley. I think Eilan might be pronounced eye-lin, but whatever, it's what she likes!

As someone else noted, Elin is also a Welsh name. It's pronounced ELLE-in.

Supermodel Elin Jakobsdottir.

One famous bearer is Czech actress Elin Špidlová.

It means 'organ' in Finnish.

Pronounced EH-lin in Swedish.

Not particularly famous, but Agnetha Faltskog and Bjorn Ulvaeus named their daughter Linda Elin.