Elna
Elna was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,333 among girls’ names; 4,478 Americans have been recorded with it since 1883 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Elna mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Elna is “a female given name”
Relatively recent variant of Elina.
/ˈelnɑ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Elna?
#10,333 among girls’ names, 2025
Elna rose from #17,228 in 2015 to #10,333 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 5.6 per million.
173 babies in 1917, the peak
Elna peaked in 1917, when 173 girls were given it, #504 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,333 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,756 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,163 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,621 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,766 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,097 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,669 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,585 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,871 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,228 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (105)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 6 | #15,132 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,530 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,514 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,252 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,748 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,053 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,487 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,210 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,285 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,696 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,107 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,538 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,585 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,273 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 8 | #4,990 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,005 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,224 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,003 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,637 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,360 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,554 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,889 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,273 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 26 | #2,182 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 18 | #2,749 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 25 | #2,175 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 30 | #1,916 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 21 | #2,315 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 35 | #1,654 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 20 | #2,264 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 30 | #1,734 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 35 | #1,571 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 28 | #1,793 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 44 | #1,401 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 33 | #1,538 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 44 | #1,192 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 39 | #1,281 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 51 | #1,130 | 0.04 |
| 1942 | 51 | #1,103 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 67 | #900 | 0.06 |
| 1940 | 56 | #960 | 0.05 |
| 1939 | 49 | #1,013 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 79 | #794 | 0.07 |
| 1937 | 70 | #821 | 0.07 |
| 1936 | 66 | #829 | 0.06 |
| 1935 | 70 | #814 | 0.07 |
| 1934 | 67 | #835 | 0.06 |
| 1933 | 73 | #771 | 0.07 |
| 1932 | 85 | #733 | 0.08 |
| 1931 | 93 | #693 | 0.09 |
| 1930 | 91 | #735 | 0.08 |
| 1929 | 105 | #686 | 0.09 |
| 1928 | 99 | #711 | 0.09 |
| 1927 | 91 | #760 | 0.08 |
| 1926 | 116 | #676 | 0.10 |
| 1925 | 121 | #673 | 0.10 |
| 1924 | 105 | #723 | 0.08 |
| 1923 | 113 | #690 | 0.09 |
| 1922 | 143 | #605 | 0.12 |
| 1921 | 120 | #675 | 0.10 |
| 1920 | 154 | #579 | 0.13 |
| 1919 | 139 | #598 | 0.12 |
| 1918 | 162 | #556 | 0.14 |
| 1917 | 173 | #504 | 0.16 |
| 1916 | 161 | #515 | 0.15 |
| 1915 | 136 | #550 | 0.14 |
| 1914 | 107 | #543 | 0.14 |
| 1913 | 88 | #542 | 0.14 |
| 1912 | 66 | #605 | 0.12 |
| 1911 | 55 | #580 | 0.13 |
| 1910 | 52 | #572 | 0.13 |
| 1909 | 49 | #547 | 0.14 |
| 1908 | 30 | #716 | 0.09 |
| 1907 | 38 | #605 | 0.12 |
| 1906 | 39 | #564 | 0.13 |
| 1905 | 19 | #854 | 0.07 |
| 1904 | 37 | #548 | 0.13 |
| 1903 | 29 | #609 | 0.11 |
| 1902 | 13 | #987 | 0.05 |
| 1901 | 14 | #891 | 0.06 |
| 1900 | 45 | #505 | 0.15 |
| 1899 | 28 | #580 | 0.12 |
| 1898 | 22 | #703 | 0.09 |
| 1897 | 18 | #748 | 0.08 |
| 1896 | 13 | #915 | 0.05 |
| 1895 | 18 | #752 | 0.08 |
| 1894 | 26 | #576 | 0.12 |
| 1893 | 12 | #875 | 0.06 |
| 1892 | 13 | #837 | 0.06 |
| 1891 | 10 | #907 | 0.05 |
| 1890 | 11 | #839 | 0.06 |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,182 | 0.03 |
| 1888 | 9 | #914 | 0.05 |
| 1885 | 7 | #863 | 0.05 |
| 1883 | 5 | #959 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Elna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 105 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Elna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elna, and how old are they?
An estimated 824 Americans named Elna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (18% of everyone recorded); the median is 77 years old and half are between 65 and 85. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,489 people named Elna (1,483 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,099 born in the U.S. The Census count is 35% above 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).
Where are babies named Elna born?
The states with the most babies named Elna are Texas, Minnesota and Alabama, with 44% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Minnesota and Alabama are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 317 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Minnesota | 163 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Alabama | 153 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Michigan | 106 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Iowa | 88 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Wisconsin | 57 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| California | 54 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Nebraska | 53 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| New York | 52 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 43 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Elna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Elna is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1910 it was given 1.9 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 Elna 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 248,136 babies since 1880, Elna is the eighth most given (1.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 15,086 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
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 Elna
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 Elna and names like it
- Compare Elna and ElenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sElna peaked in 1917.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elna since 1910.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Elna: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Elna.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Elna alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with EMost given first.