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Olena

#5,865 in 2025Girls' name

To shine, warm, smoulder, burn, through Helen

Olena has been given to 920 babies in the U.S. since 1882. In 2025 it ranked #5,865 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 35 recorded.

Babies named Olena, 2025

1 in 158,000

Olena over time, 1880–2025

Girls
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Olena: meaning, origin, and history

To shine, warm, smoulder, burn, through Helen

Ukrainian

What Olena means

Olena belongs to the name family reached through Olena → Helen → Helena → Ἑλένη. Its meaning is “to shine, warm, smoulder, burn”.

Origin, language, and formation

Olena is used in English and Ingrian. Its origins include Ukrainian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Helen, Helena and Ἑλένη.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Ingrian, Olena is pronounced /ˈolenɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 920 girls were recorded with the name Olena between 1882 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 35 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,000 in 1882.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,563 in 2020 to #5,865 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,980 in 2015 to #5,865 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.

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How common is Olena?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 158,000
21 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 76,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,865
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Olena 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 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Olena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Olenas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Olena was born before 1955 — so the typical Olena is around 70 today.

Median birth year
1955
About 70 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
16.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
38.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
490
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Choose a decade

2020s — 16.8% of all recorded uses (155).

Is Olena 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
−1,675
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+698
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+115
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
0.95×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.0%
Peak was 2024 (35)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,000
1882

Spellings of Olena

Olena is not the most common spelling — Lena is, with 8.2% against Olena'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 Olena is used

Across 1910–2025, Olena was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 286,239 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 33,333
  2. 2Arkansas1 in —
  3. 3North Carolina1 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. Olena has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Olena around the world

Where Olena 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
    2004–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • France
    2006–2025
    #7,373
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2021
    #460
    in 2021
  • Canada
    1994–2023
    #2,435
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1958–1958
    #598
    in 1958

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, 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. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Olena by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,865
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 698
Best rank ever
#1,000
1882
Peak year
2024
35 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
920
Count in 2025
21

Names similar to Olena

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

OleanAmenaIlenaAbenaSeenaVeenaOleneZeenaOlettaMeenaRaenaArenaAdenaNeenaIrenaReenaDalenaJalenaCienaJolenaOlethaSyrenaLavenaValena

Sibling names for Olena

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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