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How popular is the name Lena?
Births per year, rank history and how many Lenas are alive today.
Lena (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 288th in 2025 with 158 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2013, when 427 babies were given the name, the 128th most popular that year. It has declined since 2013; the 2025 figure is roughly 37% of its peak. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 5,700 babies have been named Lena in England and Wales since 1996. Lena is one spelling of a name also recorded as Leana, Leena and Lina; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Lena you are most likely to meet is around 12 years old. Half of all Lenas born in England and Wales are between 7 and 17, and there are at least 10,000 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 Lena.
How many babies are named Lena each year?
Includes all spellings: Lena, Leana, Leena, Lina. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Lena spelling rank?
Where does the Leana spelling rank?
Where does the Leena spelling rank?
Where does the Lina spelling rank?
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 Lena most popular?
Lena peaked in 2013, when 547 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Lena?
At least 10,000 people named Lena in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Lena?
Most living Lenas are between 7 and 17; the most common age is about 12.
Is Lena becoming more or less popular?
Declining: recent figures are a fraction of the 2013 peak.