Meaning not yet researched.
Elayne: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 40 in 2025. Its best rank was #732 in 1924.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #732 in 1924; #3,732 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Elayne in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,732 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1924, at #732.
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Elayne: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 40 girls in 2025. Peak: #732 in 1924 · most girls in one year: 104 (1946).
In 2025, 40 US girls were named Elayne, making it the 3,732nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 72 places from #3,660 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 42 girls named Elayne in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #732, reached in 1924. The most girls given the name in a single year was 104, in 1946. For comparison, it was #5,519 in 2015 and #1,138 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Elayne in 114 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 5 babies. In all, 4,114 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 761 babies named Elayne.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 313 US girls were named Elayne; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 42. In 2025 that was about 1 in 40,182 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Elaine (263,543 babies since 1880), Elan (4,331 babies since 1880) and Ellyn (3,836 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 Elayne in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40 | #3,732 | — | — |
| 2024 | 42 | #3,660 | — | — |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,805 | — | — |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,504 | — | — |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,651 | — | — |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,102 | — | — |
| 2019 | 27 | #4,943 | — | — |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,052 | — | — |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,724 | — | — |
| 2016 | 34 | #4,277 | — | — |
| 2015 | 24 | #5,519 | — | — |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,049 | — | — |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,797 | — | — |
| 2012 | 31 | #4,633 | — | — |
| 2011 | 22 | #5,994 | — | — |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,392 | — | — |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,889 | — | — |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,879 | — | — |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,766 | — | — |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,943 | — | — |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,057 | — | — |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,510 | — | — |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,229 | — | — |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,163 | — | — |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,411 | — | — |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,697 | — | — |
| 1999 | 14 | #6,933 | — | — |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,197 | — | — |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,884 | — | — |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,487 | — | — |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,510 | — | — |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,244 | — | — |
| 1993 | 31 | #3,522 | — | — |
| 1992 | 29 | #3,703 | — | — |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,711 | — | — |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,358 | — | — |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,267 | — | — |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,899 | — | — |
| 1987 | 23 | #3,777 | — | — |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,527 | — | — |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,589 | — | — |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,014 | — | — |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,353 | — | — |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,006 | — | — |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,044 | — | — |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,575 | — | — |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,511 | — | — |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,317 | — | — |
| 1977 | 24 | #3,203 | — | — |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,716 | — | — |
| 1975 | 12 | #4,938 | — | — |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,529 | — | — |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,281 | — | — |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,541 | — | — |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,699 | — | — |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,625 | — | — |
| 1969 | 17 | #3,361 | — | — |
| 1968 | 24 | #2,565 | — | — |
| 1967 | 23 | #2,574 | — | — |
| 1966 | 23 | #2,538 | — | — |
| 1965 | 37 | #1,894 | — | — |
| 1964 | 31 | #2,160 | — | — |
| 1963 | 34 | #2,030 | — | — |
| 1962 | 40 | #1,809 | — | — |
| 1961 | 37 | #1,899 | — | — |
| 1960 | 40 | #1,795 | — | — |
| 1959 | 45 | #1,622 | — | — |
| 1958 | 49 | #1,531 | — | — |
| 1957 | 49 | #1,534 | — | — |
| 1956 | 44 | #1,602 | — | — |
| 1955 | 52 | #1,390 | — | — |
| 1954 | 69 | #1,206 | — | — |
| 1953 | 50 | #1,379 | — | — |
| 1952 | 58 | #1,253 | — | — |
| 1951 | 56 | #1,244 | — | — |
| 1950 | 66 | #1,138 | — | — |
| 1949 | 80 | #1,008 | — | — |
| 1948 | 80 | #973 | — | — |
| 1947 | 98 | #893 | — | — |
| 1946 | 104 | #811 | — | — |
| 1945 | 82 | #832 | — | — |
| 1944 | 67 | #948 | — | — |
| 1943 | 67 | #968 | — | — |
| 1942 | 64 | #981 | — | — |
| 1941 | 58 | #963 | — | — |
| 1940 | 40 | #1,154 | — | — |
| 1939 | 32 | #1,312 | — | — |
| 1938 | 42 | #1,115 | — | — |
| 1937 | 49 | #1,007 | — | — |
| 1936 | 50 | #971 | — | — |
| 1935 | 49 | #984 | — | — |
| 1934 | 54 | #941 | — | — |
| 1933 | 52 | #950 | — | — |
| 1932 | 63 | #881 | — | — |
| 1931 | 74 | #787 | — | — |
| 1930 | 66 | #892 | — | — |
| 1929 | 61 | #917 | — | — |
| 1928 | 56 | #996 | — | — |
| 1927 | 84 | #793 | — | — |
| 1926 | 82 | #803 | — | — |
| 1925 | 100 | #736 | — | — |
| 1924 | 102 | #732 | — | — |
| 1923 | 77 | #837 | — | — |
| 1922 | 70 | #873 | — | — |
| 1921 | 79 | #832 | — | — |
| 1920 | 50 | #1,054 | — | — |
| 1919 | 30 | #1,433 | — | — |
| 1918 | 20 | #1,903 | — | — |
| 1917 | 26 | #1,481 | — | — |
| 1916 | 22 | #1,640 | — | — |
| 1915 | 14 | #2,164 | — | — |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,302 | — | — |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,323 | — | — |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,098 | — | — |
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).