How rare is the name Elana?

8,659 people in the United States have the first name Elana, about 1 in 34,881. It ranks #2,706 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

ELANA

#2,706

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
8,659
About
1 in 34,881
This common or more
80.6%
Who bears it

Of the 8,659 people named Elana, 67.7% reported their origin as White, 14.2% as Hispanic or Latino and 9.7% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Elana peaked in 2006, when 219 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19342025
Peak year
2006
Births that year
219
In 2025*
97 ▼56%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 8,909 babies have been given the name since 1934. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Elana by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #1,843. The largest share of babies named Elana, 30.2%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1930s#11,2936
1940s#3,792163
1950s#3,909204
1960s#1,938879
1970s#2,016953
1980s#1,8431,332
1990s#2,0711,494
2000s#2,2381,762
2010s#2,7261,471
2020s#3,387645
Silent Generation 1928–450.9%
Baby boom 1946–648.5%
Generation X 1965–8016.7%
Millennials 1981–9625.3%
Generation Z 1997–1230.2%
2013 and later18.4%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Elana is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Elana has been most common in New York (3.1×), New Jersey (2.1×), and Florida (1.9×), and least common in Minnesota (0.3×).

5,405 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Elana

#2,704 Burton · 8,663#2,705 Merlin · 8,662#2,707 Yessica · 8,654#2,708 Jie · 8,648

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Elana, most common first.

#491 Elena · 114,540#1,002 Eliana · 43,043#1,457 Elaina · 23,181#3,194 Elina · 6,769#4,737 Elan · 3,834#4,832 Elayna · 3,728#8,822 Eleana · 1,620#9,355 Elna · 1,489

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