Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls
Origin: GreekElena is a popular female given name of Greek origin. The name means "shining light". Nicknames of the name Elena are Lena, Lennie, Ella, Ellie, Nellie, or Nena.
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Elena yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Elena's 2024 count, 4,567 births, and its best-ever rank, #45, arrived together — 75% above its count from ten years before.
This name's SSA data goes back to 1880, a long, quiet history before this recent acceleration.
Its famous-bearer list is unusually political and international — Romanian dictator's wife Elena Ceaușescu, Rome's former mayor Virginia Raggi (whose middle name is Elena), and cosmonaut-adjacent Bulgarian singer Inna (born Elena Alexandra Apostoleanu) — a spread across Eastern Europe that doesn't resemble the largely American or British namesake lists common elsewhere in this batch.
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Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 8 | #641 |
| 1881 | 5 | #859 |
| 1884 | 10 | #696 |
| 1885 | 7 | #861 |
| 1886 | 11 | #706 |
| 1887 | 7 | #971 |
| 1888 | 15 | #669 |
| 1889 | 11 | #813 |
| 1890 | 11 | #838 |
| 1891 | 17 | #647 |
| 1892 | 15 | #769 |
| 1893 | 17 | #726 |
| 1894 | 27 | #561 |
| 1895 | 25 | #612 |
| 1896 | 25 | #621 |
| 1897 | 18 | #746 |
| 1898 | 22 | #702 |
| 1899 | 23 | #648 |
| 1900 | 23 | #765 |
| 1901 | 29 | #579 |
| 1902 | 37 | #528 |
| 1903 | 23 | #699 |
| 1904 | 40 | #522 |
| 1905 | 34 | #604 |
| 1906 | 40 | #556 |
| 1907 | 43 | #558 |
| 1908 | 57 | #476 |
| 1909 | 50 | #535 |
| 1910 | 65 | #505 |
| 1911 | 84 | #445 |
| 1912 | 83 | #537 |
| 1913 | 116 | #465 |
| 1914 | 132 | #480 |
| 1915 | 164 | #482 |
| 1916 | 166 | #507 |
| 1917 | 162 | #525 |
| 1918 | 188 | #495 |
| 1919 | 175 | #514 |
| 1920 | 178 | #530 |
| 1921 | 211 | #475 |
| 1922 | 205 | #481 |
| 1923 | 211 | #474 |
| 1924 | 213 | #477 |
| 1925 | 213 | #479 |
| 1926 | 232 | #443 |
| 1927 | 242 | #441 |
| 1928 | 250 | #429 |
| 1929 | 214 | #450 |
| 1930 | 219 | #456 |
| 1931 | 176 | #486 |
| 1932 | 193 | #475 |
| 1933 | 178 | #479 |
| 1934 | 164 | #503 |
| 1935 | 130 | #561 |
| 1936 | 150 | #531 |
| 1937 | 148 | #552 |
| 1938 | 153 | #551 |
| 1939 | 127 | #594 |
| 1940 | 135 | #599 |
| 1941 | 198 | #494 |
| 1942 | 205 | #519 |
| 1943 | 225 | #497 |
| 1944 | 223 | #479 |
| 1945 | 216 | #494 |
| 1946 | 242 | #501 |
| 1947 | 256 | #517 |
| 1948 | 281 | #478 |
| 1949 | 266 | #497 |
| 1950 | 259 | #501 |
| 1951 | 267 | #504 |
| 1952 | 277 | #506 |
| 1953 | 314 | #490 |
| 1954 | 338 | #483 |
| 1955 | 407 | #445 |
| 1956 | 348 | #502 |
| 1957 | 404 | #471 |
| 1958 | 440 | #455 |
| 1959 | 398 | #485 |
| 1960 | 431 | #469 |
| 1961 | 400 | #486 |
| 1962 | 421 | #469 |
| 1963 | 484 | #440 |
| 1964 | 507 | #434 |
| 1965 | 455 | #443 |
| 1966 | 529 | #399 |
| 1967 | 519 | #402 |
| 1968 | 475 | #436 |
| 1969 | 522 | #424 |
| 1970 | 509 | #433 |
| 1971 | 515 | #412 |
| 1972 | 486 | #405 |
| 1973 | 432 | #440 |
| 1974 | 546 | #382 |
| 1975 | 521 | #389 |
| 1976 | 530 | #387 |
| 1977 | 539 | #389 |
| 1978 | 574 | #371 |
| 1979 | 629 | #359 |
| 1980 | 633 | #370 |
| 1981 | 656 | #357 |
| 1982 | 616 | #373 |
| 1983 | 563 | #391 |
| 1984 | 542 | #398 |
| 1985 | 723 | #329 |
| 1986 | 639 | #367 |
| 1987 | 594 | #389 |
| 1988 | 611 | #394 |
| 1989 | 722 | #355 |
| 1990 | 757 | #352 |
| 1991 | 742 | #348 |
| 1992 | 791 | #337 |
| 1993 | 819 | #322 |
| 1994 | 921 | #297 |
| 1995 | 947 | #293 |
| 1996 | 947 | #301 |
| 1997 | 971 | #295 |
| 1998 | 1,138 | #273 |
| 1999 | 1,468 | #212 |
| 2000 | 1,366 | #234 |
| 2001 | 1,392 | #228 |
| 2002 | 1,358 | #233 |
| 2003 | 1,464 | #222 |
| 2004 | 1,584 | #215 |
| 2005 | 1,604 | #217 |
| 2006 | 1,875 | #187 |
| 2007 | 1,744 | #192 |
| 2008 | 1,627 | #209 |
| 2009 | 1,685 | #195 |
| 2010 | 1,886 | #164 |
| 2011 | 1,939 | #160 |
| 2012 | 2,274 | #139 |
| 2013 | 2,393 | #132 |
| 2014 | 2,616 | #121 |
| 2015 | 2,898 | #106 |
| 2016 | 3,187 | #94 |
| 2017 | 3,881 | #68 |
| 2018 | 3,776 | #67 |
| 2019 | 3,948 | #60 |
| 2020 | 3,926 | #55 |
| 2021 | 4,279 | #53 |
| 2022 | 4,289 | #49 |
| 2023 | 4,276 | #47 |
| 2024 | 4,567 | #45 |
