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Elona

#6,617 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Ilona

Elona has been given to 1,142 babies in the U.S. since 1913. In 2025 it ranked #6,617 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1946, with 39 recorded.

Babies named Elona, 2025

1 in 195,000

Elona 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Elona: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Ilona

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Elona means

Elona is a form of Ilona.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Elona → Ilona → Helen → Helena → Ἑλένη. The family’s meaning is “to shine, warm, smoulder, burn”, recorded in Ancient Greek with the source elements swel-.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ilona.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,142 girls were recorded with the name Elona between 1913 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 39 in 1946; its best national rank was #1,403 in 1946.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,141 in 2020 to #6,617 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,069 in 2015 to #6,617 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Elona?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 94,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,617
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Elona 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elona. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Elonas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Elona was born before 1980 — so the typical Elona is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
16.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
37.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
892
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Choose a decade

2010s — 16.5% of all recorded uses (189).

Is Elona 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
−611
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−476
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+452
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
43.6%
Peak was 1946 (39)
Years since peak
79
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
51.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,403
1946

Spellings of Elona

Elona is not the most common spelling — Ella is, with 13.8% against Elona's 0.05%.

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 Elona is used

Across 1910–2025, Elona was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

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. Elona has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Elona around the world

Where Elona 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
    1996–2023
    #4,710
    in 2023
  • France
    1995–2025
    #1,659
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2003–2021
    #2,638
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1967–1995
    #712
    in 1995

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

Elona by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,617
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 476
Best rank ever
#1,403
1946
Peak year
1946
39 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,142
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Elona

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

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Sibling names for Elona

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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