Elayna

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Elayna: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Elayna: Recorded since 1998, it reached #314 in 2014, and it stood at #1,743 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
28times a registrar ranked it
27years from first to last
#314highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1998–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#3142
1999	#2770
2002	#4137
2004	#4598
2006	#4157
2007	#3667
2008	#5545
2009	#5556
2010	#3156
2011	#3549
2012	#2969
2013	#3160
2014	#2464
2015	#2195
2016	#2008
2017	#2090
2018	#1586
2019	#1497
2020	#1556
2021	#1259
2022	#1245
2023	#1774
2024	#1743

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 23 of the 27 years from 1998 to 2024.

In 2023: #856 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1774 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1998–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1998
First recorded at #3142 among girls in England and Wales in 1998 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1743 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Elayna appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 23 years beginning in 1998, and has registered 250 births with the name.

Elayna across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Elayna's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3142 (1998)	#1245 (2022)	#1743 (2024)	23 of 27	250 (1998–2024)	26 (2021)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#910 (2010)	#856 (2023)	#856 (2023)	4 of 14	12 (2010–2023)	3 (2010)

Elayna by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Elayna in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	9	2 of 10	5
2000s	21	6 of 10	4
2010s	116	10 of 10	12
2020sbusiest	104	5 of 10	21

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 21 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Elayna appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #314 in Northern Ireland in 2014.

Elayna's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1743	17	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1774	16	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1245	26	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1259	26	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1556	19	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1497	20	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1586	19	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2090	13	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2008	14	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2195	12	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2464	10	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3160	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2969	8	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#3549	6	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#3156	7	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#5556	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3667	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#4157	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#4598	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2770	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3142	4	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#314	5	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1998 and 2024, ranked in 23 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #314, first reached in 2014.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 26 births, registered in England and Wales in 2021.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2010, and 16 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Elaya · #837, 10y
Elayah · #2488, 12y
Elba · #2411, 11y
Elbjørg · #231, 15y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Vaida · #314, 23y
Jagoda · #315, 21y
Casie · #316, 19y
Cate · #316, 18y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Arianne · #314, 29y
Billie-Jo · #314, 28y
Edison · #314, 27y
Saif · #314, 30y

Elayna was ranked #314 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2014. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Elayna and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Elayna without appearing here.

Elayna moved ahead of

Yvonne Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2090 and #2090 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1586 and #5666.
Hennie Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4598 and #4598 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #2464 and #5691.
Siobhán Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2090 and #1817 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1586 and #4684.
Lynette Compare
In 2011 they stood at #5556 and #4564 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #2969 and #5876.

Moved ahead of Elayna

Blake Compare
In 2008 they stood at #3667 and #5201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #5556 and #3936.
Ezra Compare
In 2013 they stood at #3160 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #2464 and #1628.
Frida Compare
In 2001 they stood at #2770 and #3900 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #4137 and #3409.
Rory Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1245 and #1452 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #1774 and #1469.

Moved the opposite way to Elayna

Abigail Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Elayna went from #3142 to #1743 while Abigail went from #22 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Elayna went from #3142 to #1743 while Aimee went from #68 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Elayna went from #3142 to #1743 while Aisling went from #391 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Elayna went from #3142 to #1743 while Alex went from #179 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Elayna

Ada Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Elayna went from #3142 to #1743 and Ada from #3142 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Elayna went from #3142 to #1743 and Alma from #2165 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Elayna went from #3142 to #1743 and Alyssa from #561 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Elayna went from #3142 to #1743 and Amalie from #3848 to #1128.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #314 in Northern Ireland in 2014. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Elayna

Elayna at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Elayna across 2 official records

Elayna by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Elayna appears in

Popularity data

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Elayna at a glance

Elayna across 2 official records

Elayna by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Elayna

Elayna and the names beside it

Elayna moved ahead of

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