Meaning not yet researched.
Eleni: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 240 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,006 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,006 in 2024; #1,038 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Eleni in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,038 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #1,006.
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Eleni: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 240 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,006 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 255 (2024).
In 2025, 240 US girls were named Eleni, making it the 1,038th most common girls’ name of the year, down 32 places from #1,006 in 2024. That is 15 fewer than the 255 girls named Eleni in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,006, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 255. For comparison, it was #1,602 in 2015 and #4,053 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Eleni in 78 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1946 with 6 babies. In all, 6,822 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,420 babies named Eleni.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,798 US girls were named Eleni; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 255. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,697 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Eleni ranked highest in Nevada in 2025, at #451 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Helen (1,027,307 babies since 1880), Ellen (276,029 babies since 1880), Lena (146,805 babies since 1880) and Elena (108,117 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Elanie, Ilani and Eleny 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: Elanie (755), Ilani (749), Eleny (341), Elany (330), Eloni (197), Elania (192), Ellani (154), Elenie (153), Eilani (148), Elahni (121), Ellenie (106), Elleni (96), and more.
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 Eleni 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 33 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada | 6 | #451 | — |
| Massachusetts | 11 | #490 | #869 |
| Maryland | 10 | #516 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 16 | #625 | #1,472 |
| Utah | 6 | #632 | — |
| Colorado | 6 | #824 | — |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #826 | — |
| New Jersey | 8 | #867 | #877 |
| New York | 18 | #870 | #827 |
| Florida | 18 | #886 | #2,177 |
| California | 31 | #918 | #1,352 |
| Michigan | 7 | #994 | — |
| Washington | 5 | #1,098 | #993 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,149 | #1,326 |
| Texas | 23 | #1,166 | #2,252 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,176 | — |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,252 | — |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,327 | #1,521 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 240 | #1,038 | — | — |
| 2024 | 255 | #1,006 | — | — |
| 2023 | 215 | #1,130 | — | — |
| 2022 | 187 | #1,280 | — | — |
| 2021 | 170 | #1,324 | — | — |
| 2020 | 149 | #1,451 | — | — |
| 2019 | 163 | #1,380 | — | — |
| 2018 | 118 | #1,743 | — | — |
| 2017 | 139 | #1,573 | — | — |
| 2016 | 162 | #1,426 | — | — |
| 2015 | 134 | #1,602 | — | — |
| 2014 | 158 | #1,439 | — | — |
| 2013 | 151 | #1,472 | — | — |
| 2012 | 124 | #1,692 | — | — |
| 2011 | 150 | #1,491 | — | — |
| 2010 | 121 | #1,724 | — | — |
| 2009 | 146 | #1,549 | — | — |
| 2008 | 145 | #1,576 | — | — |
| 2007 | 137 | #1,624 | — | — |
| 2006 | 141 | #1,549 | — | — |
| 2005 | 126 | #1,611 | — | — |
| 2004 | 122 | #1,602 | — | — |
| 2003 | 118 | #1,628 | — | — |
| 2002 | 143 | #1,353 | — | — |
| 2001 | 115 | #1,601 | — | — |
| 2000 | 126 | #1,461 | — | — |
| 1999 | 127 | #1,392 | — | — |
| 1998 | 95 | #1,681 | — | — |
| 1997 | 104 | #1,556 | — | — |
| 1996 | 124 | #1,359 | — | — |
| 1995 | 142 | #1,211 | — | — |
| 1994 | 156 | #1,143 | — | — |
| 1993 | 184 | #1,008 | — | — |
| 1992 | 146 | #1,198 | — | — |
| 1991 | 86 | #1,705 | — | — |
| 1990 | 111 | #1,428 | — | — |
| 1989 | 106 | #1,406 | — | — |
| 1988 | 81 | #1,605 | — | — |
| 1987 | 104 | #1,321 | — | — |
| 1986 | 85 | #1,476 | — | — |
| 1985 | 81 | #1,508 | — | — |
| 1984 | 77 | #1,493 | — | — |
| 1983 | 60 | #1,774 | — | — |
| 1982 | 59 | #1,832 | — | — |
| 1981 | 53 | #1,991 | — | — |
| 1980 | 56 | #1,918 | — | — |
| 1979 | 48 | #2,094 | — | — |
| 1978 | 65 | #1,640 | — | — |
| 1977 | 56 | #1,806 | — | — |
| 1976 | 38 | #2,215 | — | — |
| 1975 | 50 | #1,844 | — | — |
| 1974 | 48 | #1,826 | — | — |
| 1973 | 40 | #2,033 | — | — |
| 1972 | 45 | #1,862 | — | — |
| 1971 | 42 | #2,012 | — | — |
| 1970 | 37 | #2,176 | — | — |
| 1969 | 22 | #2,864 | — | — |
| 1968 | 26 | #2,446 | — | — |
| 1967 | 38 | #1,910 | — | — |
| 1966 | 27 | #2,316 | — | — |
| 1965 | 25 | #2,423 | — | — |
| 1964 | 22 | #2,696 | — | — |
| 1963 | 27 | #2,319 | — | — |
| 1962 | 22 | #2,624 | — | — |
| 1961 | 17 | #3,096 | — | — |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,553 | — | — |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,150 | — | — |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,600 | — | — |
| 1957 | 18 | #2,748 | — | — |
| 1956 | 16 | #2,957 | — | — |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,861 | — | — |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,794 | — | — |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,027 | — | — |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,638 | — | — |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,053 | — | — |
| 1949 | 8 | #3,980 | — | — |
| 1948 | 8 | #3,972 | — | — |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,583 | — | — |
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).