Elena
Nationally, Elena lands at #42 for 2025, peaking as we speak. An old entry (1880) having its biggest moment now, with 108,013 American bearers across the record.
What Elena carries
Elena · Greek
“light”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Elena’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Elena, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Elena since 1880
Elena is at its all-time peak right now: #42 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Elena is most common
By share of a state's recorded girls' names, Elena runs strongest in New Mexico at 0.81% in 2025, then Wyoming and Rhode Island.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Elena
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Sebastian
#16 in 2025 · Greek
Evangeline
#147 in 2025 · Greek
Miles
#44 in 2025 · Greek
Theodore
#4 in 2025 · Greek
Sophie
#55 in 2025 · Greek
Zoe
#31 in 2025 · Greek
Penelope
#22 in 2025 · Greek
Lydia
#92 in 2025 · Greek
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About Elena
How common is Elena today?
Nationally, Elena lands at #42 for 2025, peaking as we speak. The full curve since 1880 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
Does Elena have a meaning on record?
The reference we cite records “light”, of Greek origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Which names sit near Elena?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Sebastian, Evangeline and Miles, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
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