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How popular is the name Elena?
Births per year, rank history and how many Elenas are alive today.
Elena (female) sits just outside the top 100 girls' names in England and Wales, ranked 161st in 2025 with 307 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2017, when 394 babies were given the name, the 135th most popular that year. Numbers have been stable in recent years. At least 8,500 babies have been named Elena in England and Wales since 1996.
The Elena you are most likely to meet is around 8 years old. Half of all Elenas born in England and Wales are between 8 and 26, and there are at least 9,900 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 3.1% chance that at least one of them will be called Elena.
How many babies are named Elena each year?
Where does Elena rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Elena most popular?
Elena peaked in 2017, when 394 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Elena?
At least 9,900 people named Elena born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Elena?
Most living Elenas are between 8 and 26; the most common age is about 8.
Is Elena becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.