Eleni
#1,038 for girls in 2025, 240 births
- Peak · girls
- 2024 · 255 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,822since 1946
Eleni over time
Rank among girls' names. Eleni 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 | #1,038 | 240 |
| 2024 | #1,004 | 255 |
| 2023 | #1,129 | 215 |
| 2022 | #1,279 | 187 |
| 2021 | #1,323 | 170 |
| 2020 | #1,448 | 149 |
| 2019 | #1,377 | 163 |
| 2018 | #1,741 | 118 |
| 2017 | #1,572 | 139 |
| 2016 | #1,425 | 162 |
| 2015 | #1,600 | 134 |
| 2014 | #1,436 | 158 |
| 2013 | #1,470 | 151 |
| 2012 | #1,690 | 124 |
| 2011 | #1,490 | 150 |
| 2010 | #1,720 | 121 |
| 2009 | #1,546 | 146 |
| 2008 | #1,573 | 145 |
| 2007 | #1,621 | 137 |
| 2006 | #1,546 | 141 |
| 2005 | #1,609 | 126 |
| 2004 | #1,601 | 122 |
| 2003 | #1,625 | 118 |
| 2002 | #1,351 | 143 |
| 2001 | #1,600 | 115 |
| 2000 | #1,456 | 126 |
| 1999 | #1,390 | 127 |
| 1998 | #1,675 | 95 |
| 1997 | #1,552 | 104 |
| 1996 | #1,358 | 124 |
| 1995 | #1,209 | 142 |
| 1994 | #1,141 | 156 |
| 1993 | #1,006 | 184 |
| 1992 | #1,194 | 146 |
| 1991 | #1,702 | 86 |
| 1990 | #1,424 | 111 |
| 1989 | #1,405 | 106 |
| 1988 | #1,600 | 81 |
| 1987 | #1,318 | 104 |
| 1986 | #1,472 | 85 |
| 1985 | #1,505 | 81 |
| 1984 | #1,490 | 77 |
| 1983 | #1,770 | 60 |
| 1982 | #1,822 | 59 |
| 1981 | #1,985 | 53 |
| 1980 | #1,904 | 56 |
| 1979 | #2,088 | 48 |
| 1978 | #1,633 | 65 |
| 1977 | #1,801 | 56 |
| 1976 | #2,210 | 38 |
| 1975 | #1,838 | 50 |
| 1974 | #1,820 | 48 |
| 1973 | #2,019 | 40 |
| 1972 | #1,856 | 45 |
| 1971 | #2,001 | 42 |
| 1970 | #2,160 | 37 |
| 1969 | #2,844 | 22 |
| 1968 | #2,431 | 26 |
| 1967 | #1,905 | 38 |
| 1966 | #2,308 | 27 |
| 1965 | #2,411 | 25 |
| 1964 | #2,675 | 22 |
| 1963 | #2,306 | 27 |
| 1962 | #2,605 | 22 |
| 1961 | #3,060 | 17 |
| 1960 | #3,512 | 13 |
| 1959 | #3,104 | 15 |
| 1958 | #3,543 | 12 |
| 1957 | #2,727 | 18 |
| 1956 | #2,929 | 16 |
| 1955 | #3,778 | 10 |
| 1954 | #4,655 | 7 |
| 1953 | #3,955 | 9 |
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| 1951 | #5,414 | 5 |
| 1950 | #3,962 | 8 |
| 1949 | #3,892 | 8 |
| 1948 | #3,883 | 8 |
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| 1946 | #4,417 | 6 |
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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 2002
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Massachusetts#453 · 1 in 2,789
- New York#587 · 1 in 3,588
- Illinois#782 · 1 in 5,283
- Pennsylvania#871 · 1 in 6,907
- New Jersey#932 · 1 in 6,868
Best ever in a state: #403 in Connecticut, 2020.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Massachusetts | #453 | 11 | 1 in 2,789 |
| New York | #587 | 27 | 1 in 3,588 |
| Illinois | #782 | 13 | 1 in 5,283 |
| Pennsylvania | #871 | 8 | 1 in 6,907 |
| New Jersey | #932 | 6 | 1 in 6,868 |
| Virginia | #976 | 5 | 1 in 7,132 |
| California | #1,200 | 23 | 1 in 9,684 |
| 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 Eleni
- 34 spots since 2024 (#1,004 → #1,038)
- 410 spots since 2020 (#1,448 → #1,038)
- 562 spots since 2015 (#1,600 → #1,038)
- Debuted 1946
- Peaked 2024 at #1,004 (255 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 20.8% of all girls named Eleni (1,420) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 22 | #3,883 (1948) | #4,064 |
| 1950s | 100 | #2,727 (1957) | #3,785 |
| 1960s | 239 | #1,905 (1967) | #2,606 |
| 1970s | 469 | #1,633 (1978) | #1,943 |
| 1980s | 762 | #1,318 (1987) | #1,627 |
| 1990s | 1,275 | #1,006 (1993) | #1,365 |
| 2000s | 1,319 | #1,351 (2002) | #1,553 |
| 2010s | 1,420 | #1,377 (2019) | #1,552 |
| 2020s | 1,216 | #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 2002
Top girls' names in 2002
More about 2002
girls
1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 12,566 of them was named Eleni, which outranked 92.5% 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).
- #1,345Lacie144
- #1,345Nelly144
- #1,345Terri144
- #1,351Eleni143
- #1,351Acacia143
- #1,351Arden143
- #1,351Fallon143
- #1,363Amirah142
- #1,363Cortney142
- #1,363Jessenia142
Tied with 11 names at #1,351; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.