Meaning not yet researched.
Elayna: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 171 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,109 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,109 in 2012; #1,301 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Elayna in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,301 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #1,109.
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Elayna: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 171 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,109 in 2012 · most girls in one year: 228 (2014).
In 2025, 171 US girls were named Elayna, making it the 1,301st most common girls’ name of the year, up 125 places from #1,426 in 2024. That is 15 more than the 156 girls named Elayna in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,109, reached in 2012. The most girls given the name in a single year was 228, in 2014. For comparison, it was #1,225 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Elayna in 62 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1958 with 10 babies. In all, 5,251 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,044 babies named Elayna.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,869 US girls were named Elayna; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 222. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,399 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Elayna ranked highest in Kentucky in 2025, at #589 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), Elaina (32,220 babies since 1880) and Elianna (13,497 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 Elayna 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 35 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 7 | #589 | — |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #824 | #641 |
| Missouri | 6 | #839 | #868 |
| Michigan | 8 | #883 | #939 |
| Indiana | 6 | #944 | #543 |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,047 | — |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,096 | #798 |
| Texas | 25 | #1,102 | #1,158 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,175 | #1,447 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,180 | #700 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,228 | — |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,326 | #803 |
| Florida | 10 | #1,354 | #1,524 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,454 | — |
| California | 13 | #1,678 | #1,502 |
| New York | 5 | #2,182 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 171 | #1,301 | — | — |
| 2024 | 156 | #1,426 | — | — |
| 2023 | 148 | #1,476 | — | — |
| 2022 | 204 | #1,179 | — | — |
| 2021 | 201 | #1,198 | — | — |
| 2020 | 184 | #1,237 | — | — |
| 2019 | 192 | #1,221 | — | — |
| 2018 | 205 | #1,175 | — | — |
| 2017 | 186 | #1,268 | — | — |
| 2016 | 222 | #1,140 | — | — |
| 2015 | 202 | #1,225 | — | — |
| 2014 | 228 | #1,113 | — | — |
| 2013 | 193 | #1,238 | — | — |
| 2012 | 224 | #1,109 | — | — |
| 2011 | 197 | #1,217 | — | — |
| 2010 | 195 | #1,236 | — | — |
| 2009 | 146 | #1,548 | — | — |
| 2008 | 158 | #1,481 | — | — |
| 2007 | 158 | #1,476 | — | — |
| 2006 | 160 | #1,417 | — | — |
| 2005 | 143 | #1,473 | — | — |
| 2004 | 172 | #1,259 | — | — |
| 2003 | 119 | #1,619 | — | — |
| 2002 | 124 | #1,523 | — | — |
| 2001 | 99 | #1,799 | — | — |
| 2000 | 94 | #1,834 | — | — |
| 1999 | 91 | #1,758 | — | — |
| 1998 | 52 | #2,627 | — | — |
| 1997 | 44 | #2,785 | — | — |
| 1996 | 43 | #2,812 | — | — |
| 1995 | 45 | #2,697 | — | — |
| 1994 | 51 | #2,476 | — | — |
| 1993 | 46 | #2,649 | — | — |
| 1992 | 33 | #3,354 | — | — |
| 1991 | 34 | #3,235 | — | — |
| 1990 | 32 | #3,381 | — | — |
| 1989 | 22 | #4,280 | — | — |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,056 | — | — |
| 1987 | 29 | #3,199 | — | — |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,591 | — | — |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,138 | — | — |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,635 | — | — |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,225 | — | — |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,550 | — | — |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,197 | — | — |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,797 | — | — |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,506 | — | — |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,122 | — | — |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,749 | — | — |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,518 | — | — |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,971 | — | — |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,536 | — | — |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,134 | — | — |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,875 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,072 | — | — |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,596 | — | — |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,014 | — | — |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,434 | — | — |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,064 | — | — |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,066 | — | — |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,455 | — | — |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,014 | — | — |
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).