Jelina
Jelina was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,940 among girls’ names; 245 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jelina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jelina?
#13,940 among girls’ names, 2025
Jelina fell from #11,306 in 2015 to #13,940 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 5.0 to 3.7 per million.
16 babies in 2009, the peak
Jelina peaked in 2009, when 16 girls were given it, #7,849 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 38% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,940 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,324 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,311 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,563 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,167 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,370 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,857 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,593 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,238 | 4.5 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,306 | 5.0 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 6 | #15,435 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,006 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,968 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,933 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,849 | 8.7 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,021 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,200 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,983 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,122 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,947 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,321 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,812 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,284 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,238 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,371 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,154 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,061 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,976 | 3.2 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,588 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jelina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jelina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jelina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jelina, and how old are they?
An estimated 243 Americans named Jelina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 9 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 273 people named Jelina (267 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 209 born in the U.S. The Census count is 31% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,940 babies since 1880, Jelina is the second most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 32 babies (19%), again the second 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 Jelina
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 Jelina and names like it
- Compare Jelina and JelenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJelina peaked in 2009.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Jelina.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jelina alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.