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Elena

Rank in 2024
#45
Born in 2024
4,567
Peak year
2024 · #45
Origin
Italian

1880 to 2024

Rising
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 4,567 girls were named Elena, about 1 in every 353.
  • 2024 is its biggest year on record.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 103,149 girls have been named Elena since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Elena per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0.2
    Greatest
  2. 0.2
    Silent
  3. 0.2
    Boomers
  4. 0.3
    Gen X
  5. 0.4
    Millennials
  6. 0.9
    Gen Z
  7. 2.2
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 3,393 babies, 0.17 per 1,000. Silent: 3,304 babies, 0.16 per 1,000. Boomers: 6,740 babies, 0.19 per 1,000. Gen X: 8,414 babies, 0.33 per 1,000. Millennials: 11,590 babies, 0.41 per 1,000. Gen Z: 25,375 babies, 0.87 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 44,036 babies, 2.17 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

Borrowed from Italian and Spanish Elena, cognate to English Helen.

  • A female given name from Italian, Spanish, or Ancient Greek.
Origin
Italian
Say it
Not recorded

From Wiktionary’s entry for Elena, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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    Rank
    #678
    Born '24
    421
    Origin
    —
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