Eleen
Eleen was given to 35 girls in 2025, #4,097 among girls’ names; 754 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Eleen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Eleen?
#4,097 among girls’ names, 2025
Eleen fell from #3,864 in 2015 to #4,097 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born held at 21.8 per million.
46 babies in 2019, the peak
Eleen peaked in 2019, when 46 girls were given it, #3,408 among girls’ names. The 35 births of 2025 are 76% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,097 | 21.8 |
| 2024 | 44 | #3,529 | 27.2 |
| 2023 | 39 | #3,856 | 24.3 |
| 2022 | 45 | #3,491 | 27.4 |
| 2021 | 35 | #4,116 | 21.3 |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,794 | 23.5 |
| 2019 | 46 | #3,408 | 27.4 |
| 2018 | 44 | #3,522 | 25.9 |
| 2017 | 34 | #4,241 | 19.7 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,943 | 21.4 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 39 | #3,864 | 21.8 |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,062 | 15.1 |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,872 | 12.5 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,324 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,547 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,786 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,118 | 3.8 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,077 | 3.1 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,502 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,531 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,694 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,882 | 2.6 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,890 | 3.0 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,470 | 3.0 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,226 | 4.3 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,169 | 4.6 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,334 | 6.6 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,989 | 5.2 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,570 | 6.3 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,467 | 6.7 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,396 | 4.8 |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,111 | 8.4 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,126 | 8.0 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,773 | 6.3 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,826 | 9.5 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,969 | 5.9 |
| 1926 | 10 | #3,104 | 8.4 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,775 | 6.6 |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,337 | 12.8 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,447 | 7.5 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,128 | 5.8 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,820 | 9.7 |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,498 | 11.7 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,554 | 7.1 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,884 | 9.6 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,474 | 5.1 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,713 | 10.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Eleen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Eleen has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Eleen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Eleen, and how old are they?
An estimated 575 Americans named Eleen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (76% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 11. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 571 people named Eleen (565 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 371 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 477,504 babies since 1880, Eleen is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 35 of their 762 babies (4.6%), the fourth 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 Eleen
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 Eleen and names like it
- Compare Eleen and EllenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sEleen peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Eleen since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Eleen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Eleen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.