Relena

#12,896 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Relena has been given to 113 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #12,896 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Relena, 2025

1 in 474,000

Relena over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,896
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Relena 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Relena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Relenas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Relena was born before 2016 — so the typical Relena is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
38.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
113
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Choose a decade

2010s — 38.1% of all recorded uses (43).

Is Relena 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
+4,257
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+4,111
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,299
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
53.8%
Peak was 2021 (13)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,368
2021

Spellings of Relena

Relena is not the most common spelling — Helen is, with 51.1% against Relena's <0.01%.

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.

Relena by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,896
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,111
Best rank ever
#8,368
2021
Peak year
2021
13 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
113
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Relena

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Sibling names for Relena

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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