Eleni — #1003 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Eleni

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,579 babies named Eleni between 1946 and 2024, spanning 79 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Eleni currently holds the #1003 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 255 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Eleni performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,420 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Eleni shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 1,017 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Eleni in 22 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Eleni 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 6,579 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.