Meaning not yet researched.
Elana: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 97 in 2025. Its best rank was #886 in 1960.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #886 in 1960; #1,982 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Elana in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,982 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1960, at #886.
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Elana: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 97 girls in 2025. Peak: #886 in 1960 · most girls in one year: 219 (2006).
In 2025, 97 US girls were named Elana, making it the 1,982nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 108 places from #1,874 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 107 girls named Elana in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #886, reached in 1960. The most girls given the name in a single year was 219, in 2006. For comparison, it was #1,527 in 2015 and #2,462 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Elana in 86 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1934 with 6 babies. In all, 8,909 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,762 babies named Elana.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,181 US girls were named Elana; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 149. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,570 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Elana ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #1,251 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Eliana (76,146 babies since 1880), Alana (68,295 babies since 1880), Lana (57,449 babies since 1880) and Elna (4,478 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Elana 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 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 7 | #1,251 | #1,094 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,290 | — |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,519 | — |
| Florida | 7 | #1,744 | #1,204 |
| Texas | 10 | #2,082 | #2,664 |
| California | 6 | #2,867 | #2,361 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 97 | #1,982 | — | — |
| 2024 | 107 | #1,874 | — | — |
| 2023 | 96 | #2,035 | — | — |
| 2022 | 114 | #1,797 | — | — |
| 2021 | 123 | #1,685 | — | — |
| 2020 | 108 | #1,823 | — | — |
| 2019 | 123 | #1,703 | — | — |
| 2018 | 135 | #1,590 | — | — |
| 2017 | 129 | #1,667 | — | — |
| 2016 | 149 | #1,518 | — | — |
| 2015 | 147 | #1,527 | — | — |
| 2014 | 172 | #1,357 | — | — |
| 2013 | 136 | #1,582 | — | — |
| 2012 | 181 | #1,304 | — | — |
| 2011 | 135 | #1,605 | — | — |
| 2010 | 164 | #1,400 | — | — |
| 2009 | 134 | #1,663 | — | — |
| 2008 | 163 | #1,448 | — | — |
| 2007 | 183 | #1,326 | — | — |
| 2006 | 219 | #1,131 | — | — |
| 2005 | 179 | #1,260 | — | — |
| 2004 | 214 | #1,076 | — | — |
| 2003 | 186 | #1,163 | — | — |
| 2002 | 151 | #1,300 | — | — |
| 2001 | 172 | #1,188 | — | — |
| 2000 | 161 | #1,232 | — | — |
| 1999 | 165 | #1,175 | — | — |
| 1998 | 153 | #1,207 | — | — |
| 1997 | 133 | #1,308 | — | — |
| 1996 | 159 | #1,143 | — | — |
| 1995 | 168 | #1,063 | — | — |
| 1994 | 149 | #1,186 | — | — |
| 1993 | 155 | #1,143 | — | — |
| 1992 | 146 | #1,197 | — | — |
| 1991 | 131 | #1,280 | — | — |
| 1990 | 135 | #1,233 | — | — |
| 1989 | 136 | #1,196 | — | — |
| 1988 | 148 | #1,068 | — | — |
| 1987 | 123 | #1,182 | — | — |
| 1986 | 142 | #1,062 | — | — |
| 1985 | 149 | #1,014 | — | — |
| 1984 | 130 | #1,076 | — | — |
| 1983 | 137 | #1,028 | — | — |
| 1982 | 126 | #1,121 | — | — |
| 1981 | 118 | #1,149 | — | — |
| 1980 | 123 | #1,113 | — | — |
| 1979 | 116 | #1,147 | — | — |
| 1978 | 119 | #1,099 | — | — |
| 1977 | 105 | #1,178 | — | — |
| 1976 | 87 | #1,274 | — | — |
| 1975 | 103 | #1,130 | — | — |
| 1974 | 110 | #1,073 | — | — |
| 1973 | 70 | #1,404 | — | — |
| 1972 | 84 | #1,242 | — | — |
| 1971 | 81 | #1,326 | — | — |
| 1970 | 78 | #1,345 | — | — |
| 1969 | 92 | #1,164 | — | — |
| 1968 | 57 | #1,507 | — | — |
| 1967 | 85 | #1,151 | — | — |
| 1966 | 117 | #940 | — | — |
| 1965 | 60 | #1,426 | — | — |
| 1964 | 79 | #1,241 | — | — |
| 1963 | 69 | #1,333 | — | — |
| 1962 | 78 | #1,250 | — | — |
| 1961 | 103 | #1,080 | — | — |
| 1960 | 139 | #886 | — | — |
| 1959 | 29 | #2,117 | — | — |
| 1958 | 24 | #2,343 | — | — |
| 1957 | 27 | #2,131 | — | — |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,756 | — | — |
| 1955 | 26 | #2,125 | — | — |
| 1954 | 18 | #2,616 | — | — |
| 1953 | 15 | #2,852 | — | — |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,425 | — | — |
| 1951 | 26 | #1,933 | — | — |
| 1950 | 17 | #2,462 | — | — |
| 1949 | 21 | #2,159 | — | — |
| 1948 | 20 | #2,206 | — | — |
| 1947 | 20 | #2,217 | — | — |
| 1946 | 27 | #1,737 | — | — |
| 1945 | 20 | #1,896 | — | — |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,226 | — | — |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,741 | — | — |
| 1942 | 17 | #2,141 | — | — |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,886 | — | — |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,945 | — | — |
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).