Elaina
Elaina was given to 1,176 girls in 2025, #267 among girls’ names; 32,220 Americans have been recorded with it since 1941 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 31,600 Americans named Elaina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elaina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Elaina mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Elaina is “a female given name from Ancient Greek, of modern usage, variant of Elaine.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Elaina?
#267 among girls’ names, 2025
Elaina rose from #292 in 2015 to #267 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.62 to 0.73 per 1,000.
1,256 babies in 2024, the peak
Elaina peaked in 2024, when 1,256 girls were given it, #254 among girls’ names. The 1,176 births of 2025 are 94% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,176 | #267 | 0.73 |
| 2024 | 1,256 | #254 | 0.78 |
| 2023 | 1,151 | #272 | 0.72 |
| 2022 | 1,219 | #255 | 0.74 |
| 2021 | 1,203 | #257 | 0.73 |
| 2020 | 1,209 | #250 | 0.75 |
| 2019 | 1,170 | #281 | 0.70 |
| 2018 | 1,214 | #271 | 0.71 |
| 2017 | 1,144 | #285 | 0.66 |
| 2016 | 1,189 | #267 | 0.67 |
Every recorded year (85)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,109 | #292 | 0.62 |
| 2014 | 1,151 | #282 | 0.64 |
| 2013 | 1,037 | #309 | 0.59 |
| 2012 | 932 | #336 | 0.53 |
| 2011 | 897 | #361 | 0.51 |
| 2010 | 813 | #393 | 0.46 |
| 2009 | 666 | #465 | 0.36 |
| 2008 | 685 | #462 | 0.36 |
| 2007 | 763 | #430 | 0.40 |
| 2006 | 717 | #445 | 0.38 |
| 2005 | 695 | #439 | 0.38 |
| 2004 | 658 | #457 | 0.36 |
| 2003 | 650 | #460 | 0.36 |
| 2002 | 522 | #527 | 0.29 |
| 2001 | 530 | #511 | 0.29 |
| 2000 | 534 | #506 | 0.29 |
| 1999 | 454 | #555 | 0.26 |
| 1998 | 354 | #652 | 0.20 |
| 1997 | 303 | #709 | 0.17 |
| 1996 | 353 | #636 | 0.20 |
| 1995 | 341 | #638 | 0.19 |
| 1994 | 358 | #618 | 0.20 |
| 1993 | 280 | #742 | 0.15 |
| 1992 | 270 | #766 | 0.15 |
| 1991 | 267 | #770 | 0.14 |
| 1990 | 242 | #813 | 0.13 |
| 1989 | 238 | #799 | 0.13 |
| 1988 | 219 | #831 | 0.12 |
| 1987 | 188 | #893 | 0.11 |
| 1986 | 203 | #826 | 0.12 |
| 1985 | 191 | #849 | 0.11 |
| 1984 | 167 | #895 | 0.10 |
| 1983 | 193 | #805 | 0.12 |
| 1982 | 212 | #774 | 0.13 |
| 1981 | 222 | #744 | 0.13 |
| 1980 | 169 | #898 | 0.10 |
| 1979 | 164 | #906 | 0.10 |
| 1978 | 238 | #669 | 0.16 |
| 1977 | 145 | #952 | 0.09 |
| 1976 | 83 | #1,310 | 0.06 |
| 1975 | 85 | #1,302 | 0.06 |
| 1974 | 122 | #995 | 0.08 |
| 1973 | 64 | #1,487 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 71 | #1,398 | 0.05 |
| 1971 | 103 | #1,133 | 0.06 |
| 1970 | 97 | #1,183 | 0.06 |
| 1969 | 106 | #1,068 | 0.06 |
| 1968 | 100 | #1,042 | 0.06 |
| 1967 | 100 | #1,029 | 0.06 |
| 1966 | 111 | #966 | 0.07 |
| 1965 | 123 | #909 | 0.07 |
| 1964 | 119 | #972 | 0.06 |
| 1963 | 99 | #1,092 | 0.05 |
| 1962 | 78 | #1,249 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 62 | #1,421 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 56 | #1,469 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 67 | #1,307 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 70 | #1,266 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 66 | #1,306 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 28 | #2,062 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 33 | #1,853 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 36 | #1,711 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 26 | #2,037 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 22 | #2,220 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 20 | #2,263 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 20 | #2,202 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 21 | #2,157 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 20 | #2,204 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 34 | #1,641 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 20 | #2,108 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 27 | #1,601 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,539 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 24 | #1,757 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 18 | #2,065 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 15 | #2,208 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Elaina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elaina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 85 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Elaina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elaina, and how old are they?
31,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 32,220 Americans ever recorded as Elaina. The median Elaina alive today is 14 years old; half are between 7 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 23,181 people named Elaina (23,147 women and girls, 34 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 24,858 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 51 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 728 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,750 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,840 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 10,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 15,100 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Elaina born?
The states with the most babies named Elaina are Texas, California and Ohio, with 22% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 114 | #301 | 0.8× |
| California | 71 | #476 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 66 | #166 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 55 | #328 | 0.8× |
| New York | 54 | #312 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 48 | #236 | 1.1× |
| Missouri | 48 | #122 | 1.3× |
| Michigan | 45 | #201 | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 45 | #240 | 1.0× |
| Indiana | 44 | #156 | 1.4× |
Where Elaina is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Elaina is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1941 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Elaina with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 536,683 babies since 1880, Elaina is the fourth most given (6.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,176 of their 19,176 babies (6.1%), the fifth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Elaina
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Elaina and names like it
- Compare Elaina and ElaineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sElaina peaked in 2024.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elaina since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Elaina.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Elaina alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.