Elana

Where Elana comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Elana.

  • Vowel-ended
Elana through the years
  1. 1934
    First appearance
    #3,802 among girls with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1960
    Peak, #885
    139 babies named Elana, its best rank.
  3. 1963
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,330.
  4. 1966
    Elana Meyer born
    South African athletics competitor
  5. 1984
    Elana Meyers Taylor born
    American bobsledder
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Elana Meyers Taylor · American bobsledder, born 1984
  • Elana Meyer · South African athletics competitor, born 1966
  • Elana Eden · Israeli actress, born 1940
  • Elana Hill · Zimbabwean rower, born 1988
  • Elana James · American musician, born 1970

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.