Eleni

#1,038 for girls in 2025, 240 births

Peak · girls
#1,004
2024 · 255 births
Debut · girls
1946
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
6,822
since 1946

Eleni over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Eleni has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201946girlsat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#1,038240
2024#1,004255
2023#1,129215
2022#1,279187
2021#1,323170
2020#1,448149
2019#1,377163
2018#1,741118
2017#1,572139
2016#1,425162
2015#1,600134
2014#1,436158
2013#1,470151
2012#1,690124
2011#1,490150
2010#1,720121
2009#1,546146
2008#1,573145
2007#1,621137
2006#1,546141
2005#1,609126
2004#1,601122
2003#1,625118
2002#1,351143
2001#1,600115
2000#1,456126
1999#1,390127
1998#1,67595
1997#1,552104
1996#1,358124
1995#1,209142
1994#1,141156
1993#1,006184
1992#1,194146
1991#1,70286
1990#1,424111
1989#1,405106
1988#1,60081
1987#1,318104
1986#1,47285
1985#1,50581
1984#1,49077
1983#1,77060
1982#1,82259
1981#1,98553
1980#1,90456
1979#2,08848
1978#1,63365
1977#1,80156
1976#2,21038
1975#1,83850
1974#1,82048
1973#2,01940
1972#1,85645
1971#2,00142
1970#2,16037
1969#2,84422
1968#2,43126
1967#1,90538
1966#2,30827
1965#2,41125
1964#2,67522
1963#2,30627
1962#2,60522
1961#3,06017
1960#3,51213
1959#3,10415
1958#3,54312
1957#2,72718
1956#2,92916
1955#3,77810
1954#4,6557
1953#3,9559
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1951#5,4145
1950#3,9628
1949#3,8928
1948#3,8838
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First appearance
1946

The first year at least five girls were named Eleni! It came in at #4,417, and was given to 6 baby girls.

Quietest stretch: 1947, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Eleni is popular in 1946

No state had 5 or more girls named Eleni in 1946, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Eleni
Momentum · girls
Rising
  • 34 spots since 2024 (#1,004 → #1,038)
  • 410 spots since 2020 (#1,448 → #1,038)
  • 562 spots since 2015 (#1,600 → #1,038)
Rise & fade · girls
78 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1946
  • Peaked 2024 at #1,004 (255 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 6,354
  • Highest: 1 in 6,354 girls born in 2024 were named Eleni (0.02%)
  • Latest: 1 in 6,697 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 20.8% of all girls named Eleni (1,420) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1940s22#3,883 (1948)#4,064
1950s100#2,727 (1957)#3,785
1960s239#1,905 (1967)#2,606
1970s469#1,633 (1978)#1,943
1980s762#1,318 (1987)#1,627
1990s1,275#1,006 (1993)#1,365
2000s1,319#1,351 (2002)#1,553
2010s1,420#1,377 (2019)#1,552
2020s1,216#1,004 (2024)#1,204

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.

Eleni in 1946

girls
#4,417
6 births · 1 in 261,884 girls

Top girls' names in 1946

  1. #1Mary67,471
  2. #2Linda52,710
  3. #3Patricia46,297
  4. #4Barbara45,126
  5. #5Carol34,284
  6. #6Sandra31,692
  7. #7Nancy28,345
  8. #8Susan28,267
  9. #9Sharon27,824
  10. #10Judith22,310
  11. #4,417Eleni6
More about 1946

girls

1,571,305 girls got a published name in 1946; 1 in 261,884 of them was named Eleni, which outranked 22.3% of the 5,686 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Eleni
  1. #3,994Yvonnie7
  2. #3,994Zannie7
  3. #3,994Zeola7
  4. #4,417Eleni6
  5. #4,417Adean6
  6. #4,417Adelyn6
  7. #4,417Adrien6
  8. #4,960Adine5
  9. #4,960Adlene5
  10. #4,960Adra5

Tied with 542 names at #4,417; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1945
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,830Jacalyn#2,742 → #912
  2. ↑ 914Kimberly#1,621 → #707
  3. ↑ 615Suzette#1,032 → #417
  4. ↑ 538Randi#1,356 → #818
  5. ↑ 528Dayle#1,356 → #828
Fallers
  1. ↓ 335Oma#941 → #1,276
  2. ↓ 324Iola#824 → #1,148
  3. ↓ 324Artie#994 → #1,318
  4. ↓ 303Eartha#954 → #1,257
  5. ↓ 301Willia#830 → #1,131

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1946 →