Meaning not yet researched.
Elaina: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,176 in 2025. Its best rank was #250 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #250 in 2020; #267 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Elaina in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#267 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #250.
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Elaina: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,176 girls in 2025. Peak: #250 in 2020 · most girls in one year: 1,256 (2024).
In 2025, 1,176 US girls were named Elaina, making it the 267th most common girls’ name of the year, down 13 places from #254 in 2024. That is 80 fewer than the 1,256 girls named Elaina in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #250, reached in 2020. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,256, in 2024. For comparison, it was #292 in 2015 and #2,203 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Elaina in 85 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1941 with 15 babies. In all, 32,220 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 10,656 babies named Elaina.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 11,931 US girls were named Elaina; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 1,256. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,367 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Elaina ranked highest in Missouri in 2025, at #122 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Elena (108,117 babies since 1880), Eliana (76,146 babies since 1880), Elliana (28,058 babies since 1880) and Elianna (13,497 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Elainah, Elaynah and Ilanna are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Elainah (185), Elaynah (121), Ilanna (92), Ilaina (49), Ilayna (35), Elannah (17), Elaynna (10).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Elaina in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 8 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri | 48 | #122 | #122 |
| West Virginia | 11 | #141 | #149 |
| Kentucky | 31 | #142 | #189 |
| Kansas | 22 | #150 | #341 |
| Indiana | 44 | #156 | #185 |
| Maine | 7 | #158 | #168 |
| Ohio | 66 | #166 | #182 |
| North Dakota | 6 | #170 | — |
| Mississippi | 15 | #171 | #382 |
| New Hampshire | 7 | #181 | #195 |
| Connecticut | 17 | #198 | #318 |
| Arkansas | 15 | #200 | #159 |
| Idaho | 11 | #201 | #290 |
| Michigan | 45 | #201 | #177 |
| Tennessee | 38 | #205 | #211 |
| Iowa | 16 | #205 | #156 |
| Montana | 5 | #223 | — |
| Wisconsin | 25 | #224 | #215 |
| Oklahoma | 17 | #228 | #172 |
| Nebraska | 10 | #231 | #282 |
| South Carolina | 21 | #233 | #227 |
| Pennsylvania | 48 | #236 | #266 |
| Massachusetts | 24 | #236 | #403 |
| North Carolina | 45 | #240 | #262 |
| Illinois | 43 | #242 | #293 |
| Alabama | 18 | #269 | #257 |
| Arizona | 26 | #274 | #727 |
| Colorado | 21 | #289 | #245 |
| Nevada | 9 | #300 | — |
| Virginia | 28 | #301 | #279 |
| Texas | 114 | #301 | #310 |
| New York | 54 | #312 | #594 |
| Minnesota | 18 | #314 | #226 |
| Washington | 23 | #320 | #360 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #325 | #403 |
| Florida | 55 | #328 | #370 |
| Maryland | 16 | #336 | #325 |
| Louisiana | 12 | #370 | #320 |
| Oregon | 9 | #403 | #263 |
| Georgia | 26 | #435 | #533 |
| California | 71 | #476 | #574 |
| New Jersey | 12 | #630 | #370 |
| Utah | 6 | #631 | #345 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,176 | #267 | — | — |
| 2024 | 1,256 | #254 | — | — |
| 2023 | 1,151 | #272 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,219 | #255 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,203 | #257 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,209 | #250 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,170 | #281 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,214 | #271 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,144 | #285 | — | — |
| 2016 | 1,189 | #267 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,109 | #292 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,151 | #282 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,037 | #309 | — | — |
| 2012 | 932 | #336 | — | — |
| 2011 | 897 | #361 | — | — |
| 2010 | 813 | #393 | — | — |
| 2009 | 666 | #465 | — | — |
| 2008 | 685 | #462 | — | — |
| 2007 | 763 | #430 | — | — |
| 2006 | 717 | #445 | — | — |
| 2005 | 695 | #439 | — | — |
| 2004 | 658 | #457 | — | — |
| 2003 | 650 | #460 | — | — |
| 2002 | 522 | #527 | — | — |
| 2001 | 530 | #511 | — | — |
| 2000 | 534 | #506 | — | — |
| 1999 | 454 | #555 | — | — |
| 1998 | 354 | #652 | — | — |
| 1997 | 303 | #709 | — | — |
| 1996 | 353 | #636 | — | — |
| 1995 | 341 | #638 | — | — |
| 1994 | 358 | #618 | — | — |
| 1993 | 280 | #743 | — | — |
| 1992 | 270 | #768 | — | — |
| 1991 | 267 | #770 | — | — |
| 1990 | 242 | #814 | — | — |
| 1989 | 238 | #801 | — | — |
| 1988 | 219 | #831 | — | — |
| 1987 | 188 | #893 | — | — |
| 1986 | 203 | #826 | — | — |
| 1985 | 191 | #849 | — | — |
| 1984 | 167 | #895 | — | — |
| 1983 | 193 | #805 | — | — |
| 1982 | 212 | #774 | — | — |
| 1981 | 222 | #744 | — | — |
| 1980 | 169 | #898 | — | — |
| 1979 | 164 | #906 | — | — |
| 1978 | 238 | #669 | — | — |
| 1977 | 145 | #952 | — | — |
| 1976 | 83 | #1,310 | — | — |
| 1975 | 85 | #1,302 | — | — |
| 1974 | 122 | #995 | — | — |
| 1973 | 64 | #1,487 | — | — |
| 1972 | 71 | #1,398 | — | — |
| 1971 | 103 | #1,133 | — | — |
| 1970 | 97 | #1,183 | — | — |
| 1969 | 106 | #1,068 | — | — |
| 1968 | 100 | #1,042 | — | — |
| 1967 | 100 | #1,029 | — | — |
| 1966 | 111 | #966 | — | — |
| 1965 | 123 | #909 | — | — |
| 1964 | 119 | #972 | — | — |
| 1963 | 99 | #1,092 | — | — |
| 1962 | 78 | #1,249 | — | — |
| 1961 | 62 | #1,422 | — | — |
| 1960 | 56 | #1,470 | — | — |
| 1959 | 67 | #1,308 | — | — |
| 1958 | 70 | #1,267 | — | — |
| 1957 | 66 | #1,307 | — | — |
| 1956 | 28 | #2,063 | — | — |
| 1955 | 33 | #1,854 | — | — |
| 1954 | 36 | #1,712 | — | — |
| 1953 | 26 | #2,038 | — | — |
| 1952 | 22 | #2,221 | — | — |
| 1951 | 20 | #2,264 | — | — |
| 1950 | 20 | #2,203 | — | — |
| 1949 | 21 | #2,158 | — | — |
| 1948 | 20 | #2,205 | — | — |
| 1947 | 34 | #1,642 | — | — |
| 1946 | 20 | #2,109 | — | — |
| 1945 | 27 | #1,602 | — | — |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,540 | — | — |
| 1943 | 24 | #1,758 | — | — |
| 1942 | 18 | #2,066 | — | — |
| 1941 | 15 | #2,209 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).