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Elana

#1,982 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Elana has been given to 8,909 babies in the U.S. since 1934. In 2025 it ranked #1,982 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 219 recorded.

Babies named Elana, 2025

1 in 34,200

Elana over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Elana: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Elana means

Elana is a given name.

The naming story behind Elana

Wikidata records Elana as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q51898552, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,909 girls were recorded with the name Elana between 1934 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 219 in 2006; its best national rank was #886 in 1960.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,823 in 2020 to #1,982 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,527 in 2015 to #1,982 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Elana?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 34,200
97 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 16,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,982
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
23,691 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Elana sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 23,691 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Elanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Elana was born before 1996 — so the typical Elana is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
19.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
8,740
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2000s — 19.8% of all recorded uses (1,762).

Is Elana rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−108
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−159
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−455
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.66×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
44.3%
Peak was 2006 (219)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#886
1960

Spellings of Elana

Elana is not the most common spelling — Diana is, with 9.5% against Elana's 0.23%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Elana is used

Across 2016–2025, Elana was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 16,376 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 50,000).

29 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 11,111
  2. 2Georgia1 in 11,111
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 11,111
  4. 4Virginia1 in 11,111
  5. 5Illinois1 in 12,500
  6. 6New York1 in 12,500
  7. 7Ohio1 in 14,286
  8. 8California1 in 16,667

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Elana around the world

Where Elana ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,639
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1978–2013
    #816
    in 2013
  • Northern Ireland
    2010–2010
    #430
    in 2010
  • Ireland
    1996–2024
    #898
    in 2024
  • France
    1998–2025
    #1,619
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,104
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1958–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Elana

People whose public names include Elana, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Elana in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Elana. Linked forms have their own page here.

ElnaLanaAlanaElonaOlanaElianaEljana

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Elana by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,982
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 159
Best rank ever
#886
1960
Peak year
2006
219 that year
First recorded
1934
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,909
Count in 2025
97

Names similar to Elana

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Elana

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Elana, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Elana

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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