Elaina — #254 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Elaina

The Social Security Administration has registered 31,035 babies named Elaina between 1941 and 2024, spanning 84 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Elaina currently holds the #254 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 1,252 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Elaina performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 10,655 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Elaina shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 2,449 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Elaina in 49 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Elaina in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 31,035 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.