Elana
#1,981 for girls in 2025, 97 births
- Peak · girls
- 1960 · 139 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 8,909since 1934
Elana over time
Rank among girls' names. Elana has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,981 | 97 |
| 2024 | #1,870 | 107 |
| 2023 | #2,033 | 96 |
| 2022 | #1,793 | 114 |
| 2021 | #1,680 | 123 |
| 2020 | #1,818 | 108 |
| 2019 | #1,700 | 123 |
| 2018 | #1,590 | 135 |
| 2017 | #1,665 | 129 |
| 2016 | #1,516 | 149 |
| 2015 | #1,526 | 147 |
| 2014 | #1,356 | 172 |
| 2013 | #1,576 | 136 |
| 2012 | #1,302 | 181 |
| 2011 | #1,598 | 135 |
| 2010 | #1,400 | 164 |
| 2009 | #1,660 | 134 |
| 2008 | #1,445 | 163 |
| 2007 | #1,326 | 183 |
| 2006 | #1,130 | 219 |
| 2005 | #1,259 | 179 |
| 2004 | #1,076 | 214 |
| 2003 | #1,160 | 186 |
| 2002 | #1,297 | 151 |
| 2001 | #1,187 | 172 |
| 2000 | #1,231 | 161 |
| 1999 | #1,174 | 165 |
| 1998 | #1,205 | 153 |
| 1997 | #1,303 | 133 |
| 1996 | #1,139 | 159 |
| 1995 | #1,063 | 168 |
| 1994 | #1,184 | 149 |
| 1993 | #1,143 | 155 |
| 1992 | #1,194 | 146 |
| 1991 | #1,277 | 131 |
| 1990 | #1,232 | 135 |
| 1989 | #1,196 | 136 |
| 1988 | #1,066 | 148 |
| 1987 | #1,182 | 123 |
| 1986 | #1,057 | 142 |
| 1985 | #1,014 | 149 |
| 1984 | #1,075 | 130 |
| 1983 | #1,024 | 137 |
| 1982 | #1,117 | 126 |
| 1981 | #1,148 | 118 |
| 1980 | #1,111 | 123 |
| 1979 | #1,144 | 116 |
| 1978 | #1,096 | 119 |
| 1977 | #1,175 | 105 |
| 1976 | #1,273 | 87 |
| 1975 | #1,127 | 103 |
| 1974 | #1,070 | 110 |
| 1973 | #1,399 | 70 |
| 1972 | #1,242 | 84 |
| 1971 | #1,322 | 81 |
| 1970 | #1,343 | 78 |
| 1969 | #1,162 | 92 |
| 1968 | #1,504 | 57 |
| 1967 | #1,147 | 85 |
| 1966 | #940 | 117 |
| 1965 | #1,421 | 60 |
| 1964 | #1,240 | 79 |
| 1963 | #1,330 | 69 |
| 1962 | #1,247 | 78 |
| 1961 | #1,079 | 103 |
| 1960 | #885 | 139 |
| 1959 | #2,108 | 29 |
| 1958 | #2,322 | 24 |
| 1957 | #2,121 | 27 |
| 1956 | #3,696 | 11 |
| 1955 | #2,108 | 26 |
| 1954 | #2,592 | 18 |
| 1953 | #2,812 | 15 |
| 1952 | #3,372 | 11 |
| 1951 | #1,921 | 26 |
| 1950 | #2,436 | 17 |
| 1949 | #2,134 | 21 |
| 1948 | #2,188 | 20 |
| 1947 | #2,200 | 20 |
| 1946 | #1,723 | 27 |
| 1945 | #1,874 | 20 |
| 1944 | #2,199 | 16 |
| 1943 | #2,695 | 12 |
| 1942 | #2,117 | 17 |
| 1941 | #2,846 | 10 |
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| 1934 | #3,802 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Elana! It came in at #3,802, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1935–1940, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Elana is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Missouri#603 · 1 in 3,014
- Maryland#678 · 1 in 3,434
- Kentucky#721 · 1 in 3,652
- Ohio#952 · 1 in 5,785
- North Carolina#1,002 · 1 in 5,664
Best ever in a state: #323 in West Virginia, 2009.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Missouri | #603 | 9 | 1 in 3,014 |
| Maryland | #678 | 7 | 1 in 3,434 |
| Kentucky | #721 | 5 | 1 in 3,652 |
| Ohio | #952 | 9 | 1 in 5,785 |
| North Carolina | #1,002 | 8 | 1 in 5,664 |
| New Jersey | #1,055 | 6 | 1 in 6,096 |
| Michigan | #1,115 | 6 | 1 in 7,012 |
| New York | #1,152 | 13 | 1 in 6,911 |
| Illinois | #1,307 | 7 | 1 in 8,232 |
| Georgia | #1,319 | 6 | 1 in 8,008 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,415 | 5 | 1 in 10,371 |
| Texas | #2,032 | 10 | 1 in 16,729 |
| Florida | #2,072 | 5 | 1 in 17,342 |
| California | #2,676 | 7 | 1 in 29,103 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Elana
- 111 spots since 2024 (#1,870 → #1,981)
- 163 spots since 2020 (#1,818 → #1,981)
- 455 spots since 2015 (#1,526 → #1,981)
- Biggest jump: 1,223 spots in 1960 (#2,108 → #885)
- Biggest drop: 207 spots in 1967 (#940 → #1,147)
- Debuted 1934
- Peaked 1960 at #885 (139 births)
- Births halved by 1963, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 1960–1966
- Highest: 1 in 8,581 girls born in 2004 were named Elana (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 16,570 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #885 in 1960, was only 1 in 14,546 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 19.8% of all girls named Elana (1,762) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1930s | 6 | #3,802 (1934) | #3,802 |
| 1940s | 163 | #1,723 (1946) | #2,220 |
| 1950s | 204 | #1,921 (1951) | #2,549 |
| 1960s | 879 | #885 (1960) | #1,196 |
| 1970s | 953 | #1,070 (1974) | #1,219 |
| 1980s | 1,332 | #1,014 (1985) | #1,099 |
| 1990s | 1,494 | #1,063 (1995) | #1,191 |
| 2000s | 1,762 | #1,076 (2004) | #1,277 |
| 2010s | 1,471 | #1,302 (2012) | #1,523 |
| 2020s | 645 | #1,680 (2021) | #1,863 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Elana in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 11,893 of them was named Elana, which outranked 92.0% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,512Kirsten150
- #1,512Lela150
- #1,512Lillyann150
- #1,516Elana149
- #1,516Ariela149
- #1,516Dayanna149
- #1,516Haddie149
- #1,523Aarna148
- #1,523Arlene148
- #1,523Aspyn148
Tied with 6 names at #1,516; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.