Elana
Elana was given to 97 girls in 2025, #1,982 among girls’ names; 8,909 Americans have been recorded with it since 1934 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,520 Americans named Elana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 17 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Elana?
#1,982 among girls’ names, 2025
Elana fell from #1,527 in 2015 to #1,982 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 82.3 to 60.4 per million.
219 babies in 2006, the peak
Elana peaked in 2006, when 219 girls were given it, #1,131 among girls’ names. The 97 births of 2025 are 44% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 97 | #1,982 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 107 | #1,874 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 96 | #2,035 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 114 | #1,797 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 123 | #1,685 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 108 | #1,823 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 123 | #1,703 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 135 | #1,590 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 129 | #1,667 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 149 | #1,518 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (86)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 147 | #1,527 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 172 | #1,357 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 136 | #1,582 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 181 | #1,304 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 135 | #1,605 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 164 | #1,400 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 134 | #1,663 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 163 | #1,448 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 183 | #1,326 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 219 | #1,131 | 0.12 |
| 2005 | 179 | #1,260 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 214 | #1,076 | 0.12 |
| 2003 | 186 | #1,162 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 151 | #1,299 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 172 | #1,187 | 0.10 |
| 2000 | 161 | #1,230 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 165 | #1,173 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 153 | #1,205 | 0.09 |
| 1997 | 133 | #1,306 | 0.08 |
| 1996 | 159 | #1,141 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 168 | #1,060 | 0.10 |
| 1994 | 149 | #1,183 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 155 | #1,141 | 0.09 |
| 1992 | 146 | #1,195 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 131 | #1,276 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 135 | #1,229 | 0.07 |
| 1989 | 136 | #1,193 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 148 | #1,067 | 0.08 |
| 1987 | 123 | #1,182 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 142 | #1,062 | 0.08 |
| 1985 | 149 | #1,014 | 0.09 |
| 1984 | 130 | #1,076 | 0.08 |
| 1983 | 137 | #1,028 | 0.08 |
| 1982 | 126 | #1,121 | 0.07 |
| 1981 | 118 | #1,149 | 0.07 |
| 1980 | 123 | #1,113 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 116 | #1,147 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 119 | #1,099 | 0.08 |
| 1977 | 105 | #1,178 | 0.07 |
| 1976 | 87 | #1,274 | 0.06 |
| 1975 | 103 | #1,130 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 110 | #1,073 | 0.07 |
| 1973 | 70 | #1,404 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 84 | #1,242 | 0.06 |
| 1971 | 81 | #1,326 | 0.05 |
| 1970 | 78 | #1,345 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 92 | #1,164 | 0.05 |
| 1968 | 57 | #1,507 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 85 | #1,151 | 0.05 |
| 1966 | 117 | #940 | 0.07 |
| 1965 | 60 | #1,426 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 79 | #1,241 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 69 | #1,333 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 78 | #1,250 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 103 | #1,080 | 0.05 |
| 1960 | 139 | #886 | 0.07 |
| 1959 | 29 | #2,116 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 24 | #2,342 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 27 | #2,130 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,755 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 26 | #2,124 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 18 | #2,615 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 15 | #2,851 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,424 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 26 | #1,932 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 17 | #2,461 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 21 | #2,158 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 20 | #2,205 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 20 | #2,216 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 27 | #1,736 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 20 | #1,895 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,225 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,740 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 17 | #2,140 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,884 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,943 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Elana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 86 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Elana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elana, and how old are they?
8,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 8,909 Americans ever recorded as Elana. The median Elana alive today is 29 years old; half are between 17 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 8,659 people named Elana (8,645 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,016 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 41 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 618 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,380 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,190 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,660 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,630 |
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 Elana born?
The states with the most babies named Elana are Texas, Florida and Georgia, with 59% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 10 | #2,082 | 0.4× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,744 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,251 | 0.6× |
| California | 6 | #2,867 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,290 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,519 | 0.4× |
Where Elana is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Elana is most over-represented in New York: since 1934 it was given 2.1 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 Elana 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 537,312 babies since 1880, Elana is the seventh most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 97 of their 19,061 babies (<1%), the eighth 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 Elana
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 Elana and names like it
- Compare Elana and ElaineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sElana peaked in 2006.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elana since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Elana.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Elana alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.