Olena
Olena was given to 21 girls in 2025, #5,865 among girls’ names; 920 Americans have been recorded with it since 1882 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Olena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Olena mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Olena is “a female given name from Ukrainian, equivalent to English Helen.”
Borrowed from Ukrainian Оле́на (Oléna).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Olena?
#5,865 among girls’ names, 2025
Olena rose from #5,980 in 2015 to #5,865 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 12.3 to 13.1 per million.
35 babies in 2024, the peak
Olena peaked in 2024, when 35 girls were given it, #4,190 among girls’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 60% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,865 | 13.1 |
| 2024 | 35 | #4,190 | 21.6 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,502 | 14.3 |
| 2022 | 32 | #4,441 | 19.5 |
| 2021 | 26 | #5,055 | 15.8 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,563 | 11.1 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,976 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,449 | 11.2 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,198 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,748 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (93)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #5,980 | 12.3 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,993 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,722 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 8 | #13,129 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 15 | #8,099 | 8.5 |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,153 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,820 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,339 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,999 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,213 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,923 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,813 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,262 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,919 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,111 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,994 | 6.1 |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,040 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,275 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,237 | 4.5 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,468 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,914 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,618 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,824 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,279 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,154 | 4.6 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,122 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,191 | 3.3 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,231 | 2.8 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,276 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,360 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,748 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,635 | 4.1 |
| 1954 | 7 | #5,017 | 3.6 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,380 | 4.3 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,262 | 3.3 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,127 | 3.5 |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,094 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,101 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,895 | 2.8 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,970 | 5.3 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,178 | 3.7 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,892 | 4.1 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,766 | 4.6 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,749 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,759 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 6 | #4,037 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 6 | #4,098 | 5.7 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,887 | 9.6 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,659 | 6.9 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,990 | 9.4 |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,392 | 12.2 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,526 | 11.5 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,872 | 9.9 |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,473 | 12.1 |
| 1927 | 18 | #2,153 | 15.1 |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,442 | 12.7 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,327 | 5.8 |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,315 | 8.0 |
| 1923 | 11 | #3,069 | 9.1 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,592 | 7.5 |
| 1921 | 17 | #2,263 | 13.8 |
| 1920 | 19 | #2,057 | 15.9 |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,167 | 8.8 |
| 1918 | 15 | #2,350 | 13.0 |
| 1917 | 16 | #2,175 | 14.8 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,978 | 9.6 |
| 1915 | 14 | #2,225 | 14.2 |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,228 | 14.4 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,984 | 17.6 |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,803 | 19.7 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,766 | 12.0 |
| 1910 | 12 | #1,405 | 30.3 |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,606 | 25.1 |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,679 | 23.7 |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,541 | 26.7 |
| 1901 | 7 | #1,432 | 29.2 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,536 | 25.7 |
| 1898 | 7 | #1,470 | 27.1 |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,507 | 25.6 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,648 | 22.4 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,236 | 34.6 |
| 1883 | 5 | #1,018 | 44.5 |
| 1882 | 5 | #1,000 | 46.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Olena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Olena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 93 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Olena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Olena, and how old are they?
An estimated 512 Americans named Olena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (56% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 5 and 43. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 4,978 people named Olena (4,977 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 399 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12.5 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 3,665 babies since 1880, Olena is the second most given (25% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 122 babies (17%), the third 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 Olena
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 Olena and names like it
- Compare Olena and OleneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Olena.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Olena alive today were born 2013-2025.
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