Jelena
- #4,987 for girls in 2025, 26 births
- Peak · girls
- 2017 · 68 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,633since 1959
Jelena over time
Rank among girls' names. Jelena has never cracked the top 2,000 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 | #4,987 | 26 |
| 2024 | #4,387 | 32 |
| 2023 | #3,833 | 39 |
| 2022 | #3,963 | 37 |
| 2021 | #4,607 | 29 |
| 2020 | #3,778 | 38 |
| 2019 | #3,788 | 39 |
| 2018 | #3,107 | 52 |
| 2017 | #2,573 | 68 |
| 2016 | #2,902 | 58 |
| 2015 | #3,299 | 49 |
| 2014 | #2,922 | 58 |
| 2013 | #3,367 | 47 |
| 2012 | #3,213 | 51 |
| 2011 | #2,945 | 58 |
| 2010 | #2,976 | 57 |
| 2009 | #3,512 | 46 |
| 2008 | #3,017 | 57 |
| 2007 | #3,289 | 51 |
| 2006 | #3,316 | 49 |
| 2005 | #3,404 | 44 |
| 2004 | #3,180 | 48 |
| 2003 | #3,232 | 45 |
| 2002 | #3,394 | 40 |
| 2001 | #5,364 | 21 |
| 2000 | #3,983 | 31 |
| 1999 | #3,970 | 29 |
| 1998 | #3,914 | 29 |
| 1997 | #5,228 | 19 |
| 1996 | #4,306 | 24 |
| 1995 | #4,217 | 24 |
| 1994 | #5,713 | 16 |
| 1993 | #4,393 | 23 |
| 1992 | #4,849 | 20 |
| 1991 | #6,253 | 14 |
| 1990 | #5,060 | 18 |
| 1989 | #7,449 | 10 |
| 1988 | #5,598 | 14 |
| 1987 | #5,613 | 13 |
| 1986 | #5,757 | 12 |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 |
| 1984 | — | |
| 1983 | #5,824 | 11 |
| 1982 | #4,945 | 14 |
| 1981 | #3,739 | 21 |
| 1980 | #5,245 | 13 |
| 1979 | #4,626 | 15 |
| 1978 | #5,958 | 10 |
| 1977 | #4,069 | 17 |
| 1976 | #5,601 | 10 |
| 1975 | #7,173 | 7 |
| 1974 | #5,776 | 9 |
| 1973 | #4,871 | 11 |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 |
| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 |
| 1970 | #5,061 | 10 |
| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 |
| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 |
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| 1965 | #5,817 | 6 |
| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 |
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| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 |
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| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Jelena! It came in at #6,245, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1959–1964, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Jelena is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Florida#1,887 · 1 in 14,460
- Texas#3,285 · 1 in 32,108
Best ever in a state: #732 in Wisconsin, 2007.
Show every state
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| Florida | #1,887 | 6 | 1 in 14,460 |
| Texas | #3,285 | 5 | 1 in 32,108 |
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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 Jelena
- 600 spots since 2024 (#4,387 → #4,987)
- 1,209 spots since 2020 (#3,778 → #4,987)
- 1,688 spots since 2015 (#3,299 → #4,987)
- Debuted 1959
- Peaked 2017 at #2,573 (68 births)
- Births halved by 2021, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 25,389 girls born in 2017 were named Jelena (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 61,818 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 32.9% of all girls named Jelena (537) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #6,245 (1959) | #6,245 |
| 1960s | 26 | #5,817 (1965) | #6,730 |
| 1970s | 102 | #4,069 (1977) | #5,705 |
| 1980s | 114 | #3,739 (1981) | #5,942 |
| 1990s | 216 | #3,914 (1998) | #4,790 |
| 2000s | 432 | #3,017 (2008) | #3,569 |
| 2010s | 537 | #2,573 (2017) | #3,109 |
| 2020s | 201 | #3,778 (2020) | #4,259 |
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.
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