How rare is the name Elayna?

3,728 people in the United States have the first name Elayna, about 1 in 81,017. It ranks #4,832 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

ELAYNA

#4,832

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
3,728
About
1 in 81,017
This common or more
84.6%
Who bears it

Of the 3,728 people named Elayna, 63% reported their origin as White, 20.9% as Hispanic or Latino and 7.3% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Elayna peaked in 2014, when 228 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19582025
Peak year
2014
Births that year
228
In 2025*
171 ▼25%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 5,251 babies have been given the name since 1958. 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.

Elayna by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2010s, when it ranked #2,170. The largest share of babies named Elayna, 47.5%, were born in 2013 or later.

1950s#13,00310
1960s#7,75970
1970s#11,84351
1980s#7,133168
1990s#4,436471
2000s#2,6611,373
2010s#2,1702,044
2020s#2,4181,064
Baby boom 1946–640.7%
Generation X 1965–802%
Millennials 1981–968.3%
Generation Z 1997–1241.4%
2013 and later47.5%

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 Elayna is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Elayna has been most common in Arizona (2.6×), Indiana (2.4×), and Missouri (2.2×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.43×).

3,150 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.

Exactly as common as Elayna

1 other first name also has 3,728 people.

#4,832 Herschel · 3,728

Either side of Elayna

#4,830 Benigno · 3,732#4,830 Jasen · 3,732#4,832 Herschel · 3,728#4,834 Shalonda · 3,727

Spelled almost the same

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

#1,457 Elaina · 23,181#2,706 Elana · 8,659#5,684 Elayne · 2,971#20,345 Elanna · 509#24,274 Eleyna · 398#38,650 Ellayna · 198#40,051 Elyna · 187

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