girls:
98.5k births since 1880
#372 (94th percentile)
boys:
98 births since 1932
#4488 (2nd percentile)
overall:
98.6k births since 1880
#688 (91st percentile)
The name Elena is the #688 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 98,641 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 91.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 91.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #372 (93.5% percentile) for all time with 98,543 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,488 (2.1% percentile) for all time with 98 births since 1932.
Elena has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1932 for boys). Birth data for Elena is available in 142 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (142 years for girls and 15 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Elena has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Elena reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 95.3% percentile (ranked #45) with 2,436 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 2,436 births per million (ranked 95.3% percentile). Despite a peak around 1989, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for girls. Currently, Elena is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #45 (95.3% percentile) with 2,436 births per million.
For boys, Elena reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #746) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1932, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elena".
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Our model has identified 12 different pronunciations for the name Elena. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 19.4% confident that Elena is pronounced as eh-LEH-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ee-LAY-nuh, at 16.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like EH0 L EH1 N AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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