Meaning not yet researched.
Elna: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #504 in 1917.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #504 in 1917; #10,337 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Elna in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,337 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1917, at #504.
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Elna: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 girls in 2025. Peak: #504 in 1917 · most girls in one year: 173 (1917).
In 2025, 9 US girls were named Elna, making it the 10,337th most common girls’ name of the year, down 576 places from #9,761 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 10 girls named Elna in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #504, reached in 1917. That year also had the most girls given the name: 173. For comparison, it was #17,234 in 2015 and #1,735 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Elna in 105 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1883 with 5 babies. In all, 4,478 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,167 babies named Elna.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 79 US girls were named Elna; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 13. In 2025 that was about 1 in 178,585 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Elena (108,117 babies since 1880) and Elana (8,909 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Latvian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Elna 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 | 9 | #10,337 | — | — |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,761 | — | — |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,168 | — | — |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,626 | — | — |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,771 | — | — |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,102 | — | — |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,674 | — | — |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,590 | — | — |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,876 | — | — |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,234 | — | — |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,138 | — | — |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,536 | — | — |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,521 | — | — |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,258 | — | — |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,753 | — | — |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,058 | — | — |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,489 | — | — |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,212 | — | — |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,287 | — | — |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,698 | — | — |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,109 | — | — |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,539 | — | — |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,587 | — | — |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,274 | — | — |
| 1966 | 8 | #4,991 | — | — |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,006 | — | — |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,225 | — | — |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,004 | — | — |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,638 | — | — |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,361 | — | — |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,555 | — | — |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,890 | — | — |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,274 | — | — |
| 1957 | 26 | #2,183 | — | — |
| 1956 | 18 | #2,750 | — | — |
| 1955 | 25 | #2,176 | — | — |
| 1954 | 30 | #1,917 | — | — |
| 1953 | 21 | #2,316 | — | — |
| 1952 | 35 | #1,655 | — | — |
| 1951 | 20 | #2,265 | — | — |
| 1950 | 30 | #1,735 | — | — |
| 1949 | 35 | #1,572 | — | — |
| 1948 | 28 | #1,794 | — | — |
| 1947 | 44 | #1,402 | — | — |
| 1946 | 33 | #1,539 | — | — |
| 1945 | 44 | #1,193 | — | — |
| 1944 | 39 | #1,282 | — | — |
| 1943 | 51 | #1,131 | — | — |
| 1942 | 51 | #1,103 | — | — |
| 1941 | 67 | #900 | — | — |
| 1940 | 56 | #960 | — | — |
| 1939 | 49 | #1,013 | — | — |
| 1938 | 79 | #794 | — | — |
| 1937 | 70 | #821 | — | — |
| 1936 | 66 | #829 | — | — |
| 1935 | 70 | #814 | — | — |
| 1934 | 67 | #835 | — | — |
| 1933 | 73 | #771 | — | — |
| 1932 | 85 | #733 | — | — |
| 1931 | 93 | #693 | — | — |
| 1930 | 91 | #735 | — | — |
| 1929 | 105 | #686 | — | — |
| 1928 | 99 | #711 | — | — |
| 1927 | 91 | #760 | — | — |
| 1926 | 116 | #676 | — | — |
| 1925 | 121 | #673 | — | — |
| 1924 | 105 | #723 | — | — |
| 1923 | 113 | #690 | — | — |
| 1922 | 143 | #605 | — | — |
| 1921 | 120 | #675 | — | — |
| 1920 | 154 | #579 | — | — |
| 1919 | 139 | #598 | — | — |
| 1918 | 162 | #556 | — | — |
| 1917 | 173 | #504 | — | — |
| 1916 | 161 | #515 | — | — |
| 1915 | 136 | #550 | — | — |
| 1914 | 107 | #543 | — | — |
| 1913 | 88 | #542 | — | — |
| 1912 | 66 | #605 | — | — |
| 1911 | 55 | #580 | — | — |
| 1910 | 52 | #572 | — | — |
| 1909 | 49 | #547 | — | — |
| 1908 | 30 | #716 | — | — |
| 1907 | 38 | #605 | — | — |
| 1906 | 39 | #564 | — | — |
| 1905 | 19 | #854 | — | — |
| 1904 | 37 | #548 | — | — |
| 1903 | 29 | #609 | — | — |
| 1902 | 13 | #987 | — | — |
| 1901 | 14 | #891 | — | — |
| 1900 | 45 | #505 | — | — |
| 1899 | 28 | #580 | — | — |
| 1898 | 22 | #703 | — | — |
| 1897 | 18 | #748 | — | — |
| 1896 | 13 | #915 | — | — |
| 1895 | 18 | #752 | — | — |
| 1894 | 26 | #576 | — | — |
| 1893 | 12 | #875 | — | — |
| 1892 | 13 | #837 | — | — |
| 1891 | 10 | #907 | — | — |
| 1890 | 11 | #839 | — | — |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,183 | — | — |
| 1888 | 9 | #914 | — | — |
| 1885 | 7 | #863 | — | — |
| 1883 | 5 | #959 | — | — |
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).