# Yelena (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/yelena/  
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 | Latin |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Jelena, Elena |
| US babies named this | 1,626 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 1,626 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 53, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Russian Еле́на (Jeléna), from Latin Helena, from Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē). Doublet of Helena.

## 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 | 48 | 3,405 |
| 2012 | 36 | 4,209 |
| 2013 | 42 | 3,699 |
| 2014 | 48 | 3,367 |
| 2015 | 39 | 3,913 |
| 2016 | 56 | 3,009 |
| 2017 | 43 | 3,624 |
| 2018 | 31 | 4,557 |
| 2019 | 38 | 3,916 |
| 2020 | 29 | 4,643 |
| 2021 | 62 | 2,783 |
| 2022 | 145 | 1,504 |
| 2023 | 71 | 2,515 |
| 2024 | 72 | 2,506 |
| 2025 | 112 | 1,807 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 3 | 3,795 |
| 1997 | 7 | 2,152 |
| 1999 | 4 | 3,225 |
| 2003 | 7 | 2,436 |
| 2004 | 4 | 3,725 |
| 2005 | 5 | 3,382 |
| 2011 | 5 | 4,049 |
| 2012 | 6 | 3,681 |
| 2015 | 3 | 5,730 |
| 2021 | 3 | 5,581 |
| 2022 | 3 | 5,669 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,891 |

## In other languages

- Arabic: يِلِينَا
- Armenian: Ելենա
- Chinese: 葉連娜 /叶连娜
- Estonian: Jelena
- Finnish: Jelena
- French: Yelena
- German: Jelena
- Japanese: エレーナ
- Latvian: Jeļena
- Russian: Еле́на
- Ukrainian: Олена

## People named Yelena

- Yelena Romanova, athletics competitor (1963-2007)
- Yelena Naimushina, artistic gymnast (1964–2017)
- Yelena Panova, actress
- Yelena Grudneva, artistic gymnast
- Yelena Shevchenko, artistic gymnast
- Yelena Gagarina, art historian and director of the Moscow Kremlin Museums
- Yelena Trofimenko, Belarusian actress and film director
- Yelena Parxomenko, Azerbaijani volleyball player
- Yelena Skulskaya, Estonian journalist and writer (born 1950)
- Yelena Grishina, fencer
- Olena Zelenska, First Lady of Ukraine since 2019
- Alyona Lanskaya, Belarusian singer

## 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.