Elayna
Elayna was given to 171 girls in 2025, #1,301 among girls’ names; 5,251 Americans have been recorded with it since 1958 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,190 Americans named Elayna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elayna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Elayna?
#1,301 among girls’ names, 2025
Elayna fell from #1,225 in 2015 to #1,301 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born held at 0.11 per 1,000.
228 babies in 2014, the peak
Elayna peaked in 2014, when 228 girls were given it, #1,113 among girls’ names. The 171 births of 2025 are 75% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 171 | #1,301 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 156 | #1,426 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 148 | #1,476 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 204 | #1,179 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 201 | #1,198 | 0.12 |
| 2020 | 184 | #1,237 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 192 | #1,221 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 205 | #1,175 | 0.12 |
| 2017 | 186 | #1,268 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 222 | #1,140 | 0.13 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 202 | #1,225 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 228 | #1,113 | 0.13 |
| 2013 | 193 | #1,238 | 0.11 |
| 2012 | 224 | #1,109 | 0.13 |
| 2011 | 197 | #1,217 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 195 | #1,236 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 146 | #1,548 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 158 | #1,481 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 158 | #1,476 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 160 | #1,417 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 143 | #1,473 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 172 | #1,258 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 119 | #1,618 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 124 | #1,522 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 99 | #1,796 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 94 | #1,830 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 91 | #1,755 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 52 | #2,624 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 44 | #2,782 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 43 | #2,808 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 45 | #2,692 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 51 | #2,471 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 46 | #2,644 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 33 | #3,349 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 34 | #3,229 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 32 | #3,376 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 22 | #4,274 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,051 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 29 | #3,196 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,588 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,136 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,634 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,224 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,548 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,196 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,796 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,504 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,122 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,747 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,516 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,969 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,535 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,132 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,874 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,071 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,595 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,013 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,433 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,063 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,065 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,454 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,013 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Elayna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elayna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 62 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Elayna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elayna, and how old are they?
5,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,251 Americans ever recorded as Elayna. The median Elayna alive today is 14 years old; half are between 8 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 3,728 people named Elayna (3,724 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,189 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 33 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 99 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 426 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,150 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,480 |
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 Elayna born?
The states with the most babies named Elayna are Texas, California and Florida, with 38% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 25 | #1,102 | 0.8× |
| California | 13 | #1,678 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 10 | #1,354 | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 8 | #883 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,047 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,175 | 0.6× |
| Kentucky | 7 | #589 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,325 | 1.3× |
| Indiana | 6 | #944 | 1.5× |
| Missouri | 6 | #839 | 1.4× |
Where Elayna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Elayna is most over-represented in Indiana: since 1958 it was given 1.5 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 Elayna with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Elayna?
Elayna is a less common spelling of Elaina: SSA has recorded 5,251 Elayna and 32,220 Elaina since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 513,876 babies since 1880, Elayna is the eighth most given (1.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 171 of their 17,248 babies (<1%), the seventh 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 Elayna
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 Elayna and names like it
- Compare Elayna and ElainaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sElayna peaked in 2014.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elayna since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Elayna.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Elayna alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.