Yelena

#1,796 for girls in 2025, 112 births

Peak · girls
2022 · 145 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,626
since 1961

Yelena over time

girls

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201988girlsat 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#1,796112
2024#2,49172
2023#2,49471
2022#1,497145
2021#2,75162
2020#4,54829
2019#3,85138
2018#4,45831
2017#3,55243
2016#2,96656
2015#3,84239
2014#3,32648
2013#3,64542
2012#4,12136
2011#3,35048
2010#3,74541
2009#3,18952
2008#2,63070
2007#3,04757
2006#3,26450
2005#3,21248
2004#2,96553
2003#2,46566
2002#4,28029
2001#4,32128
2000#4,40027
1999#8,80510
1998#5,58318
1997#5,01020
1996#3,94227
1995#5,01919
1994#9,5868
1993#8,7199
1992#7,06712
1991#5,65916
1990#6,86712
1989#8,0379
1988#5,59814
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1982#10,5175
1981#10,4115
1980#9,0956
1979#9,0106
1978#9,7505
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First appearance
1961

The first year at least five girls were named Yelena! It came in at #5,851, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1962–1964, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Yelena is popular in 1988

No state had 5 or more girls named Yelena in 1988, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Yelena
Momentum · girls
Rising
  • 695 spots since 2024 (#2,491 → #1,796)
  • 2,752 spots since 2020 (#4,548 → #1,796)
  • 2,046 spots since 2015 (#3,842 → #1,796)
Rise & fade · girls
61 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1961
  • Peaked 2022 at #1,497 (145 births)
  • Births halved by 2023, 1 yr later
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 11,311
  • Highest: 1 in 11,311 girls born in 2022 were named Yelena (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 14,351 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · girls
The 2020s
  • 30.2% of all girls named Yelena (491) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s13#5,289 (1965)#5,570
1970s16#8,292 (1972)#9,017
1980s53#5,188 (1986)#8,141
1990s151#3,942 (1996)#6,626
2000s480#2,465 (2003)#3,377
2010s422#2,966 (2016)#3,686
2020s491#1,497 (2022)#2,596

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.

Yelena in 1988

girls
#5,598
14 births · 1 in 127,204 girls

Top girls' names in 1988

  1. #1Jessica51,556
  2. #2Ashley49,977
  3. #3Amanda39,459
  4. #4Sarah28,374
  5. #5Jennifer27,893
  6. #6Brittany26,816
  7. #7Stephanie22,843
  8. #8Samantha20,700
  9. #9Nicole20,315
  10. #10Elizabeth20,042
  11. #5,598Yelena14
More about 1988

girls

1,780,854 girls got a published name in 1988; 1 in 127,204 of them was named Yelena, which outranked 59.7% of the 13,883 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Yelena
  1. #5,321Yasmina15
  2. #5,321Yehudis15
  3. #5,321Zeinab15
  4. #5,598Yelena14
  5. #5,598Abra14
  6. #5,598Adelita14
  7. #5,598Ahlam14
  8. #5,895Aaryn13
  9. #5,895Adair13
  10. #5,895Aesha13

Tied with 296 names at #5,598; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1987
Risers
  1. ↑ 2,890Jalissa#3,857 → #967
  2. ↑ 2,381Taja#3,101 → #720
  3. ↑ 1,710Whitley#2,156 → #446
  4. ↑ 1,225Jalisa#1,662 → #437
  5. ↑ 883Jaleesa#1,227 → #344
Fallers
  1. ↓ 620Channing#590 → #1,210
  2. ↓ 346Denisse#954 → #1,300
  3. ↓ 319Jeana#966 → #1,285
  4. ↓ 314Eliana#826 → #1,140
  5. ↓ 311Nakia#893 → #1,204

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

See the top 100 for 1988 →