Elana Girl
How popular is Elana?
#1,981 girl name in 2025
97 baby girls were named Elana in the US in 2025, making it the 1981st most popular girl name.
Elana popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #1,981 for girls (▼ 111 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 97 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-34% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,526 in 2015, #1,818 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2006 (219 girls) |
| Highest rank | #885 in 1960 |
| First recorded | 1934 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Elana counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Elana family of names ranked #1,294 for girls in 2025 (#1,286 the year before), with 135 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Elana | 97 | 72% |
| Ellana | 9 | 7% |
| Elanna | 11 | 8% |
| Elainna | 10 | 7% |
| Elanah | 8 | 6% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Elana is most popular
Babies named Elana per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- New Jersey: 0.1 per 1,000 (26 girls)
- Florida: 0.1 per 1,000 (41 girls)
- Georgia: 0.1 per 1,000 (19 girls)
- Illinois: 0.1 per 1,000 (18 girls)
- Virginia: 0.1 per 1,000 (12 girls)
Elana by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 6 | #3,800 |
| 1940s | 163 | #1,722 |
| 1950s | 204 | #1,920 |
| 1960s | 879 | #885 |
| 1970s | 953 | #1,070 |
| 1980s | 1,332 | #1,014 |
| 1990s | 1,494 | #1,060 |
| 2000s | 1,762 | #1,076 |
| 2010s | 1,471 | #1,302 |
| 2020s | 645 | #1,680 |
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Questions
- Is Elana a boy or girl name?
- Elana is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Elana were girls.
- How popular is the name Elana?
- 97 baby girls were named Elana in the US in 2025, making it the 1981st most popular girl name.
- When was Elana most popular?
- Elana peaked in 2006, when 219 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #885 in 1960.
- How many people are named Elana?
- 8,909 babies have been named Elana in the US since 1880. We estimate about 8,577 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 29.
- Where is Elana most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Elana was most common in New Jersey, at 0.1 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.