Gelena
Gelena was last recorded in 2019, when 5 babies were given it; 121 Americans have been recorded with it between 1913 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gelena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gelena?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,363, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 2008, the peak
Gelena peaked in 2008, when 18 girls were given it, #7,177 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 | #16,363 | 3.0 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,530 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,131 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,299 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,259 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,976 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,797 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,005 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,838 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,177 | 9.5 |
Every recorded year (15)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 9 | #11,954 | 4.7 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,078 | 2.6 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,597 | 2.7 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,119 | 3.3 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,378 | 8.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gelena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gelena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 15 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gelena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gelena, and how old are they?
An estimated 115 Americans named Gelena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 12 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 241 people named Gelena (241 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 115 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 27,021 babies since 1880, Gelena is the fourth most given (<1% of them).
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 Gelena
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 Gelena and names like it
- Compare Gelena and GlennaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sGelena peaked in 2008.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Gelena.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Gelena alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.