Yelena
#1,796 for girls in 2025, 112 births
- Peak · girls
- 2022 · 145 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,626since 1961
Yelena over time
Rank among girls' names. Yelena has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,796 | 112 |
| 2024 | #2,491 | 72 |
| 2023 | #2,494 | 71 |
| 2022 | #1,497 | 145 |
| 2021 | #2,751 | 62 |
| 2020 | #4,548 | 29 |
| 2019 | #3,851 | 38 |
| 2018 | #4,458 | 31 |
| 2017 | #3,552 | 43 |
| 2016 | #2,966 | 56 |
| 2015 | #3,842 | 39 |
| 2014 | #3,326 | 48 |
| 2013 | #3,645 | 42 |
| 2012 | #4,121 | 36 |
| 2011 | #3,350 | 48 |
| 2010 | #3,745 | 41 |
| 2009 | #3,189 | 52 |
| 2008 | #2,630 | 70 |
| 2007 | #3,047 | 57 |
| 2006 | #3,264 | 50 |
| 2005 | #3,212 | 48 |
| 2004 | #2,965 | 53 |
| 2003 | #2,465 | 66 |
| 2002 | #4,280 | 29 |
| 2001 | #4,321 | 28 |
| 2000 | #4,400 | 27 |
| 1999 | #8,805 | 10 |
| 1998 | #5,583 | 18 |
| 1997 | #5,010 | 20 |
| 1996 | #3,942 | 27 |
| 1995 | #5,019 | 19 |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 |
| 1992 | #7,067 | 12 |
| 1991 | #5,659 | 16 |
| 1990 | #6,867 | 12 |
| 1989 | #8,037 | 9 |
| 1988 | #5,598 | 14 |
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| 1986 | #5,188 | 14 |
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| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 |
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 |
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| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 |
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| 1965 | #5,289 | 7 |
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| 1961 | #5,851 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Yelena! It came in at #5,851, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1962–1964, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Yelena
- 695 spots since 2024 (#2,491 → #1,796)
- 2,752 spots since 2020 (#4,548 → #1,796)
- 2,046 spots since 2015 (#3,842 → #1,796)
- Debuted 1961
- Peaked 2022 at #1,497 (145 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,311 girls born in 2022 were named Yelena (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 14,351 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 30.2% of all girls named Yelena (491) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 13 | #5,289 (1965) | #5,570 |
| 1970s | 16 | #8,292 (1972) | #9,017 |
| 1980s | 53 | #5,188 (1986) | #8,141 |
| 1990s | 151 | #3,942 (1996) | #6,626 |
| 2000s | 480 | #2,465 (2003) | #3,377 |
| 2010s | 422 | #2,966 (2016) | #3,686 |
| 2020s | 491 | #1,497 (2022) | #2,596 |
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.
Yelena in 2006
Top girls' names in 2006
More about 2006
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1,901,209 girls got a published name in 2006; 1 in 38,024 of them was named Yelena, which outranked 83.7% of the 20,064 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,224Yanira51
- #3,224Yelitza51
- #3,224Zadie51
- #3,264Yelena50
- #3,264Abbi50
- #3,264Abbygale50
- #3,264Agatha50
- #3,316Adamary49
- #3,316Addilyn49
- #3,316Ainslee49
Tied with 51 names at #3,264; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 8,571Bethzy#9,452 → #881
- ↑ 1,747Rihanna#2,278 → #531
- ↑ 965Yaretzi#1,803 → #838
- ↑ 921Betsy#1,668 → #747
- ↑ 612Evangeline#1,210 → #598
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.