# Elena (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/elena/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Italian |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 108,117 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 104 / 108,013 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 8,541, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Italian and Spanish Elena, cognate to English Helen.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,939 | 160 |
| 2012 | 2,275 | 139 |
| 2013 | 2,393 | 132 |
| 2014 | 2,616 | 121 |
| 2015 | 2,898 | 106 |
| 2016 | 3,190 | 94 |
| 2017 | 3,882 | 68 |
| 2018 | 3,776 | 67 |
| 2019 | 3,949 | 60 |
| 2020 | 3,930 | 55 |
| 2021 | 4,283 | 53 |
| 2022 | 4,290 | 49 |
| 2023 | 4,276 | 47 |
| 2024 | 4,577 | 46 |
| 2025 | 4,836 | 42 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 7 | 4,101 |
| 1972 | 6 | 4,601 |
| 1981 | 5 | 6,571 |
| 1982 | 6 | 5,863 |
| 1985 | 7 | 5,319 |
| 1986 | 6 | 6,171 |
| 1988 | 7 | 5,955 |
| 1989 | 12 | 4,348 |
| 1990 | 5 | 8,515 |
| 1993 | 5 | 9,159 |
| 1994 | 7 | 7,195 |
| 2004 | 7 | 9,211 |
| 2005 | 6 | 10,476 |
| 2017 | 5 | 12,840 |
| 2025 | 6 | 11,043 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 304 | 171 |
| 2012 | 280 | 185 |
| 2013 | 328 | 159 |
| 2014 | 357 | 155 |
| 2015 | 379 | 146 |
| 2016 | 361 | 151 |
| 2017 | 394 | 135 |
| 2018 | 393 | 132 |
| 2019 | 370 | 134 |
| 2020 | 365 | 140 |
| 2021 | 343 | 152 |
| 2022 | 363 | 138 |
| 2023 | 306 | 167 |
| 2024 | 342 | 146 |
| 2025 | 307 | 161 |

## People named Elena

- Elena Kagan, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 2010
- Helena Dragaš, Byzantine empress
- Helena Lekapene, Empress consort of Constantine VII
- Elena Kampouris, American actress (born 1997)
- Elena Gorolová, Czech human rights activist
- Elena Osipova, female Russian archer
- Elena Verdugo, American actress (1925-2017)
- Archduchess Helena of Austria, Archduchess of Austria, nun, co-founder of the convent in Hall in Tirol
- Elena Lagadinova, Bulgarian agronomist, genetic engineer, and politician
- Elena Poptodorova, Bulgarian politician, Ambassador to the United States
- Elena Yoncheva, Bulgarian journalist
- Elena Kulichenko, Cypriot high jumper

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.