Elene
Elene was given to 13 girls in 2025, #7,999 among girls’ names; 1,274 Americans have been recorded with it since 1908 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elene by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Elene?
#7,999 among girls’ names, 2025
Elene rose from #11,156 in 2015 to #7,999 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.0 to 8.1 per million.
37 babies in 1922, the peak
Elene peaked in 1922, when 37 girls were given it, #1,290 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 35% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #7,999 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,088 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,502 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,224 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,954 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,777 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,291 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,361 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,965 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,088 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (103)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,156 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,604 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,252 | 8.0 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,387 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,532 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,119 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,031 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,332 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,010 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,037 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,942 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,107 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,363 | 5.5 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,290 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,088 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,924 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,930 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,533 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,222 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,463 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,352 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,040 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 11 | #5,991 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,394 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,861 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,539 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,439 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,479 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,404 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,206 | 9.6 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,602 | 7.9 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,795 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,509 | 5.1 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,802 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,899 | 7.3 |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,025 | 6.5 |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,957 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 18 | #3,029 | 9.5 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,677 | 6.7 |
| 1962 | 8 | #4,985 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,084 | 5.4 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,541 | 4.5 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,745 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,269 | 4.5 |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,364 | 6.4 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,757 | 5.5 |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,752 | 8.7 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,054 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,538 | 5.8 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,895 | 4.9 |
| 1951 | 13 | #2,984 | 7.2 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,281 | 6.4 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,694 | 5.3 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,669 | 5.3 |
| 1947 | 20 | #2,217 | 11.3 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,921 | 7.6 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,783 | 8.4 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,657 | 9.0 |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,911 | 7.9 |
| 1942 | 19 | #1,995 | 14.1 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,568 | 9.9 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,601 | 6.1 |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,329 | 11.9 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,783 | 9.1 |
| 1937 | 19 | #1,801 | 17.9 |
| 1936 | 19 | #1,756 | 18.3 |
| 1935 | 23 | #1,562 | 21.9 |
| 1934 | 17 | #1,940 | 16.3 |
| 1933 | 15 | #2,078 | 14.9 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,273 | 13.1 |
| 1931 | 16 | #2,041 | 15.0 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,458 | 11.5 |
| 1929 | 20 | #1,843 | 17.9 |
| 1928 | 24 | #1,690 | 20.8 |
| 1927 | 23 | #1,779 | 19.3 |
| 1926 | 24 | #1,738 | 20.2 |
| 1925 | 26 | #1,654 | 21.4 |
| 1924 | 15 | #2,438 | 12.0 |
| 1923 | 25 | #1,689 | 20.7 |
| 1922 | 37 | #1,290 | 30.8 |
| 1921 | 29 | #1,551 | 23.5 |
| 1920 | 27 | #1,595 | 22.5 |
| 1919 | 23 | #1,707 | 20.4 |
| 1918 | 25 | #1,612 | 21.6 |
| 1917 | 22 | #1,666 | 20.3 |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,531 | 11.5 |
| 1915 | 21 | #1,638 | 21.3 |
| 1914 | 25 | #1,240 | 32.8 |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,702 | 20.8 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,887 | 17.9 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,272 | 14.3 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,521 | 12.6 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,920 | 17.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Elene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elene has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 103 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Elene: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elene, and how old are they?
An estimated 638 Americans named Elene and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (50% of everyone recorded); the median is 52 years old and half are between 18 and 71. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,054 people named Elene (1,048 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 668 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 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 403,450 babies since 1880, Elene is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 6,603 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 Elene
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 Elene and names like it
- Compare Elene and ElaineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sElene peaked in 1922.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elene since 1910.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Elene.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Elene alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with EMost given first.