Yalena
Yalena was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,879 among girls’ names; 220 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yalena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yalena?
#10,879 among girls’ names, 2025
Yalena fell from #10,110 in 2015 to #10,879 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.2 to 5.6 per million.
15 babies in 2016, the peak
Yalena peaked in 2016, when 15 girls were given it, #7,966 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 60% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,879 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 10 | #10,230 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 9 | #11,118 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 9 | #11,194 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,999 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 14 | #8,108 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,778 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,751 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,966 | 8.5 |
| 2015 | 11 | #10,110 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 7 | #14,498 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 6 | #16,435 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 10 | #11,206 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,661 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 9 | #12,227 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 7 | #15,166 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,777 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,398 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,552 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,793 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,860 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 12 | #9,027 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,996 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,886 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Yalena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yalena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yalena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yalena, and how old are they?
An estimated 218 Americans named Yalena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 217 people named Yalena (216 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 177 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 2,574 babies since 1880, Yalena is the second most given (8.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 194 babies (4.6%), the fifth 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 Yalena
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 Yalena and names like it
- Compare Yalena and YelenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Yalena.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Yalena alive today were born 2013-2025.
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