Elayna
#1,299 for girls in 2025, 171 births
- Peak · girls
- 2012 · 224 births
- Debut · girls
- 10 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,251since 1958
Elayna over time
Rank among girls' names. Elayna has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,299 | 171 |
| 2024 | #1,425 | 156 |
| 2023 | #1,474 | 148 |
| 2022 | #1,177 | 204 |
| 2021 | #1,198 | 201 |
| 2020 | #1,236 | 184 |
| 2019 | #1,218 | 192 |
| 2018 | #1,174 | 205 |
| 2017 | #1,268 | 186 |
| 2016 | #1,140 | 222 |
| 2015 | #1,223 | 202 |
| 2014 | #1,112 | 228 |
| 2013 | #1,238 | 193 |
| 2012 | #1,108 | 224 |
| 2011 | #1,217 | 197 |
| 2010 | #1,234 | 195 |
| 2009 | #1,546 | 146 |
| 2008 | #1,479 | 158 |
| 2007 | #1,475 | 158 |
| 2006 | #1,415 | 160 |
| 2005 | #1,471 | 143 |
| 2004 | #1,258 | 172 |
| 2003 | #1,612 | 119 |
| 2002 | #1,520 | 124 |
| 2001 | #1,795 | 99 |
| 2000 | #1,827 | 94 |
| 1999 | #1,753 | 91 |
| 1998 | #2,614 | 52 |
| 1997 | #2,776 | 44 |
| 1996 | #2,796 | 43 |
| 1995 | #2,687 | 45 |
| 1994 | #2,465 | 51 |
| 1993 | #2,639 | 46 |
| 1992 | #3,343 | 33 |
| 1991 | #3,207 | 34 |
| 1990 | #3,364 | 32 |
| 1989 | #4,248 | 22 |
| 1988 | #4,015 | 22 |
| 1987 | #3,169 | 29 |
| 1986 | #4,539 | 17 |
| 1985 | #5,077 | 14 |
| 1984 | #5,539 | 12 |
| 1983 | #5,148 | 13 |
| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 |
| 1981 | #4,162 | 18 |
| 1980 | #4,743 | 15 |
| 1979 | #7,313 | 8 |
| 1978 | #4,079 | 17 |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 |
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| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 |
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| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 |
| 1968 | #4,779 | 9 |
| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 |
| 1966 | #4,493 | 9 |
| 1965 | #3,952 | 11 |
| 1964 | #4,355 | 10 |
| 1963 | #5,891 | 6 |
| 1962 | #5,860 | 6 |
| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 |
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| 1958 | #3,925 | 10 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Elayna! It came in at #3,925, and was given to 10 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1959–1960, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Elayna is popular in 2002
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Kansas#537 · 1 in 2,690
- Missouri#549 · 1 in 3,489
- Indiana#779 · 1 in 5,380
- Pennsylvania#1,079 · 1 in 9,210
- Ohio#1,112 · 1 in 9,700
Best ever in a state: #202 in West Virginia, 2018.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Kansas | #537 | 5 | 1 in 2,690 |
| Missouri | #549 | 8 | 1 in 3,489 |
| Indiana | #779 | 6 | 1 in 5,380 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,079 | 6 | 1 in 9,210 |
| Ohio | #1,112 | 6 | 1 in 9,700 |
| Michigan | #1,183 | 5 | 1 in 9,755 |
| Florida | #1,495 | 6 | 1 in 12,837 |
| California | #1,736 | 13 | 1 in 17,133 |
| New York | #2,075 | 5 | 1 in 19,376 |
| Texas | #2,443 | 6 | 1 in 25,991 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Elayna
- 126 spots since 2024 (#1,425 → #1,299)
- 63 spots since 2020 (#1,236 → #1,299)
- 76 spots since 2015 (#1,223 → #1,299)
- Debuted 1958
- Peaked 2012 at #1,108 (224 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 7,835 girls born in 2014 were named Elayna (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 9,399 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,108 in 2012, was only 1 in 7,862 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 38.9% of all girls named Elayna (2,044) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 10 | #3,925 (1958) | #3,925 |
| 1960s | 70 | #3,952 (1965) | #5,269 |
| 1970s | 51 | #4,079 (1978) | #6,862 |
| 1980s | 168 | #3,169 (1987) | #4,988 |
| 1990s | 471 | #1,753 (1999) | #2,764 |
| 2000s | 1,373 | #1,258 (2004) | #1,540 |
| 2010s | 2,044 | #1,108 (2012) | #1,193 |
| 2020s | 1,064 | #1,177 (2022) | #1,302 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Elayna in 2002
Top girls' names in 2002
More about 2002
girls
1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 14,491 of them was named Elayna, which outranked 91.6% of the 18,086 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,510Markayla125
- #1,510Shamya125
- #1,510Zion125
- #1,520Elayna124
- #1,520Baylie124
- #1,520Destinie124
- #1,520Dixie124
- #1,535Angelia123
- #1,535Betsy123
- #1,535Brookelyn123
Tied with 14 names at #1,520; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.