Elayna
#1,301 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Elayna has been given to 5,251 babies in the U.S. since 1958. In 2025 it ranked #1,301 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 228 recorded.
Babies named Elayna, 2025
1 in 19,400
Elayna over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Elayna?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 19,400
- 171 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 9,400
- 0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,301
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 13,439 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Elayna sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 13,439 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elayna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Elaynas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Elayna was born before 2012 — so the typical Elayna is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 38.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 83.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 5,251
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 38.9% of all recorded uses (2,044).
Is Elayna 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
- +125
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −64
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −76
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.85×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 75.0%
- Peak was 2014 (228)
- Years since peak
- 11
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Steady
- 10.6% average annual change
Spellings of Elayna
Elayna is not the most common spelling — Elaine is, with 25.2% against Elayna's 0.50%.
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 Elayna is used
Across 2016–2025, Elayna was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 4,167 girls, against 1 in 9,466 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 50,000).
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.
Elayna around the world
Where Elayna 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 & Wales1998–2025#2,138in 2025
- Scotland2011–2014#802in 2014
- Northern Ireland2014–2014#314in 2014
- Ireland2010–2023#856in 2023
- France2009–2025#5,035in 2025
- Canada2000–2024#1,542in 2024
- South Australia1988–2012#871in 2012
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.
Elayna by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Elayna
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Elayna
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Elayna, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Elayna
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.