Elna
#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births
- Peak · girls
- 1917 · 173 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,478since 1883
Elna over time
Rank among girls' names. Elna has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,107 | 9 |
| 2024 | #9,556 | 10 |
| 2023 | #8,989 | 11 |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 |
| 2021 | #9,562 | 10 |
| 2020 | #7,969 | 13 |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 |
| 2018 | — | |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 |
| 2013 | — | |
| 2012 | — | |
| 2011 | — | |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 |
| 2009 | — | |
| 2008 | — | |
| 2007 | — | |
| 2006 | — | |
| 2005 | — | |
| 2004 | — | |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 |
| 2002 | — | |
| 2001 | — | |
| 2000 | — | |
| 1999 | — | |
| 1998 | — | |
| 1997 | — | |
| 1996 | — | |
| 1995 | — | |
| 1994 | — | |
| 1993 | — | |
| 1992 | — | |
| 1991 | — | |
| 1990 | — | |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 |
| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 |
| 1986 | — | |
| 1985 | — | |
| 1984 | — | |
| 1983 | — | |
| 1982 | #8,224 | 7 |
| 1981 | — | |
| 1980 | — | |
| 1979 | — | |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 |
| 1977 | — | |
| 1976 | — | |
| 1975 | #7,984 | 6 |
| 1974 | — | |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 |
| 1972 | #5,959 | 8 |
| 1971 | — | |
| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 |
| 1969 | #5,456 | 8 |
| 1968 | #5,147 | 8 |
| 1967 | — | |
| 1966 | #4,866 | 8 |
| 1965 | #5,817 | 6 |
| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 |
| 1963 | #4,896 | 8 |
| 1962 | #4,533 | 9 |
| 1961 | #3,318 | 15 |
| 1960 | #3,512 | 13 |
| 1959 | #3,827 | 11 |
| 1958 | #3,232 | 14 |
| 1957 | #2,168 | 26 |
| 1956 | #2,725 | 18 |
| 1955 | #2,156 | 25 |
| 1954 | #1,909 | 30 |
| 1953 | #2,301 | 21 |
| 1952 | #1,641 | 35 |
| 1951 | #2,245 | 20 |
| 1950 | #1,720 | 30 |
| 1949 | #1,564 | 35 |
| 1948 | #1,778 | 28 |
| 1947 | #1,397 | 44 |
| 1946 | #1,532 | 33 |
| 1945 | #1,187 | 44 |
| 1944 | #1,272 | 39 |
| 1943 | #1,124 | 51 |
| 1942 | #1,101 | 51 |
| 1941 | #894 | 67 |
| 1940 | #957 | 56 |
| 1939 | #1,009 | 49 |
| 1938 | #792 | 79 |
| 1937 | #819 | 70 |
| 1936 | #827 | 66 |
| 1935 | #813 | 70 |
| 1934 | #831 | 67 |
| 1933 | #769 | 73 |
| 1932 | #731 | 85 |
| 1931 | #690 | 93 |
| 1930 | #734 | 91 |
| 1929 | #683 | 105 |
| 1928 | #710 | 99 |
| 1927 | #757 | 91 |
| 1926 | #673 | 116 |
| 1925 | #673 | 121 |
| 1924 | #723 | 105 |
| 1923 | #690 | 113 |
| 1922 | #603 | 143 |
| 1921 | #675 | 120 |
| 1920 | #578 | 154 |
| 1919 | #597 | 139 |
| 1918 | #556 | 162 |
| 1917 | #502 | 173 |
| 1916 | #515 | 161 |
| 1915 | #547 | 136 |
| 1914 | #540 | 107 |
| 1913 | #541 | 88 |
| 1912 | #603 | 66 |
| 1911 | #580 | 55 |
| 1910 | #570 | 52 |
| 1909 | #541 | 49 |
| 1908 | #709 | 30 |
| 1907 | #601 | 38 |
| 1906 | #562 | 39 |
| 1905 | #848 | 19 |
| 1904 | #545 | 37 |
| 1903 | #607 | 29 |
| 1902 | #972 | 13 |
| 1901 | #881 | 14 |
| 1900 | #504 | 45 |
| 1899 | #578 | 28 |
| 1898 | #697 | 22 |
| 1897 | #735 | 18 |
| 1896 | #903 | 13 |
| 1895 | #746 | 18 |
| 1894 | #568 | 26 |
| 1893 | #865 | 12 |
| 1892 | #830 | 13 |
| 1891 | #893 | 10 |
| 1890 | #825 | 11 |
| 1889 | #1,147 | 6 |
| 1888 | #894 | 9 |
| 1887 | — | |
| 1886 | — | |
| 1885 | #842 | 7 |
| 1884 | — | |
| 1883 | #920 | 5 |
| 1882 | — | |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five girls were named Elna! It came in at #920, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1883–1884, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Elna is popular in 1899
The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.
See more about Elna
- 551 spots since 2024 (#9,556 → #10,107)
- 2,138 spots since 2020 (#7,969 → #10,107)
- 6,312 spots since 2015 (#16,419 → #10,107)
- Biggest jump: 365 spots in 1903 (#972 → #607)
- Biggest drop: 377 spots in 1901 (#504 → #881)
- Debuted 1883
- Peaked 1917 at #502 (173 births)
- Births halved by 1932, 15 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 54 yrs · run 1890–1938
- Highest: 1 in 6,250 girls born in 1917 were named Elna (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 178,585 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 26.1% of all girls named Elna (1,167) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 27 | #842 (1885) | #951 |
| 1890s | 171 | #568 (1894) | #764 |
| 1900s | 313 | #504 (1900) | #677 |
| 1910s | 1,139 | #502 (1917) | #555 |
| 1920s | 1,167 | #578 (1920) | #677 |
| 1930s | 743 | #690 (1931) | #802 |
| 1940s | 448 | #894 (1941) | #1,281 |
| 1950s | 230 | #1,641 (1952) | #2,392 |
| 1960s | 81 | #3,318 (1961) | #4,839 |
| 1970s | 32 | #5,959 (1972) | #7,498 |
| 1980s | 26 | #8,224 (1982) | #9,559 |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 5 | #15,784 (2003) | #15,784 |
| 2010s | 36 | #11,356 (2019) | #14,588 |
| 2020s | 60 | #7,969 (2020) | #9,738 |
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.
Elna in 1899
Top girls' names in 1899
More about 1899
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233,022 girls got a published name in 1899; 1 in 8,322 of them was named Elna, which outranked 68.6% of the 1,842 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).