Olena is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Helen, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Olena: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 21 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,000 in 1882.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,000 in 1882; #5,866 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Olena in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,866 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1882, at #1,000.
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Olena: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 21 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,000 in 1882 · most girls in one year: 35 (2024).
In 2025, 21 US girls were named Olena, making it the 5,866th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,675 places from #4,191 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 35 girls named Olena in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,000, reached in 1882. The most girls given the name in a single year was 35, in 2024. For comparison, it was #5,982 in 2015 and #5,129 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Olena in 93 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 5 babies. In all, 920 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 155 babies named Olena.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 211 US girls were named Olena; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 35. In 2025 that was about 1 in 76,537 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
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).
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 English. 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 Olena 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 | 21 | #5,866 | — | — |
| 2024 | 35 | #4,191 | — | — |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,507 | — | — |
| 2022 | 32 | #4,443 | — | — |
| 2021 | 26 | #5,059 | — | — |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,567 | — | — |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,981 | — | — |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,453 | — | — |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,202 | — | — |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,751 | — | — |
| 2015 | 22 | #5,982 | — | — |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,998 | — | — |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,727 | — | — |
| 2012 | 8 | #13,136 | — | — |
| 2011 | 15 | #8,103 | — | — |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,159 | — | — |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,826 | — | — |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,344 | — | — |
| 2007 | 12 | #10,003 | — | — |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,218 | — | — |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,930 | — | — |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,819 | — | — |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,269 | — | — |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,925 | — | — |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,118 | — | — |
| 2000 | 11 | #9,002 | — | — |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,047 | — | — |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,280 | — | — |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,242 | — | — |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,472 | — | — |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,916 | — | — |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,620 | — | — |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,826 | — | — |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,281 | — | — |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,156 | — | — |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,124 | — | — |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,193 | — | — |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,232 | — | — |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,277 | — | — |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,361 | — | — |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,749 | — | — |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,636 | — | — |
| 1954 | 7 | #5,019 | — | — |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,381 | — | — |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,263 | — | — |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,129 | — | — |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,095 | — | — |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,103 | — | — |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,897 | — | — |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,972 | — | — |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,180 | — | — |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,894 | — | — |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,768 | — | — |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,751 | — | — |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,761 | — | — |
| 1936 | 6 | #4,039 | — | — |
| 1935 | 6 | #4,100 | — | — |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,888 | — | — |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,660 | — | — |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,992 | — | — |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,393 | — | — |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,527 | — | — |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,873 | — | — |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,474 | — | — |
| 1927 | 18 | #2,154 | — | — |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,443 | — | — |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,328 | — | — |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,316 | — | — |
| 1923 | 11 | #3,070 | — | — |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,594 | — | — |
| 1921 | 17 | #2,263 | — | — |
| 1920 | 19 | #2,057 | — | — |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,169 | — | — |
| 1918 | 15 | #2,351 | — | — |
| 1917 | 16 | #2,176 | — | — |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,980 | — | — |
| 1915 | 14 | #2,226 | — | — |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,228 | — | — |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,984 | — | — |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,804 | — | — |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,766 | — | — |
| 1910 | 12 | #1,405 | — | — |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,606 | — | — |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,679 | — | — |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,541 | — | — |
| 1901 | 7 | #1,432 | — | — |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,537 | — | — |
| 1898 | 7 | #1,470 | — | — |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,508 | — | — |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,649 | — | — |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,236 | — | — |
| 1883 | 5 | #1,018 | — | — |
| 1882 | 5 | #1,000 | — | — |
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).