Elaina

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Elaina: Recorded since 1983, its highest recorded position is #337, and it stood at #885 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
54times a registrar ranked it
43years from first to last
#337highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1914
1997	#1802
1998	#2165
1999	#1805
2000	#2167
2001	#1238
2002	#1530
2003	#1472
2004	#1459
2005	#1796
2006	#1660
2007	#1502
2008	#2721
2009	#1668
2010	#1472
2011	#1149
2012	#1058
2013	#1324
2014	#763
2015	#819
2016	#1013
2017	#870
2018	#1136
2019	#980
2020	#916
2021	#1007
2022	#809
2023	#888
2024	#722

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 Republic of Ireland in 21 of the 43 years from 1983 to 2025.

In 2024: #337 among girls in Northern Ireland, #372 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #722 among girls in England and Wales, #790 among girls in Scotland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1983–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1983
First recorded at #529 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1983 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded2017–2024
Highest recorded position: #337 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2024 (recorded 2017–2024).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #885 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Elaina appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 29 ranked years and 722 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1983.

Elaina across 3 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.

Elaina'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
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#529 (1983)	#372 (2024)	#885 (2025)	21 of 43	107 (1983–2025)	10 (2013)
England and Wales · Girls	#1914 (1996)	#722 (2024)	#722 (2024)	29 of 29	722 (1996–2024)	52 (2024)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#432 (2017)	#337 (2024)	#337 (2024)	3 of 8	10 (2017–2024)	4 (2024)

Elaina 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 Elaina in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	33	4 of 10	8
2000s	131	10 of 10	13
2010s	349	10 of 10	35
2020sbusiest	209	5 of 10	42

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 42 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2013 and 2014, when recorded births rose by 26, from 25 to 51.

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

Elaina 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 4 regions, from 1983 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #337 in Northern Ireland in 2024.

Elaina'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	#722	52	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#888	40	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#809	44	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1007	34	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#916	39	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#980	36	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1136	30	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#870	44	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1013	35	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#819	46	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#763	51	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1324	25	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1058	33	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1149	29	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1472	20	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1668	16	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2721	8	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1502	17	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1660	14	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1796	12	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1459	15	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1472	14	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1530	12	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1238	16	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2167	7	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1805	9	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2165	7	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1802	9	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1914	8	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#337	4	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#391	3	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#432	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#885	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#372	10	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#625	5	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#634	5	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#586	6	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#834	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#871	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#448	9	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#751	4	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#424	10	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#550	7	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#663	5	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#893	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#501	8	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#705	4	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#550	5	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	female	#576	3	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	female	#523	3	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	female	#414	5	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	female	#529	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#790	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
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1983 and 2025, ranked in 33 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #337, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 52 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 7 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 41 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.

Ela · #372, 30y
Elaf · #1371, 19y
Elaine · #6, 69y
Elan · #1107, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 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.

Kiana · #337, 29y
Sama · #337, 28y
Alaina · #336, 30y
Reid · #339, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1980 and 1989.

Dannielle · #337, 23y
Laragh · #336, 27y
Carley · #339, 30y
Ailise · #343, 14y

Elaina was ranked #337 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2024. 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.

Elaina 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 Elaina without appearing here.

Elaina moved ahead of

Brittany Compare
In 2009 they stood at #2721 and #2487 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1472 and #4688.
Lene Compare
In 2000 they stood at #2167 and #1831 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1238 and #3998.
Geraldine Compare
In 2008 they stood at #2721 and #2487 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #1668 and #3936.
Pauline Compare
In 2008 they stood at #2721 and #1718 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #1668 and #3936.

Moved ahead of Elaina

Harper Compare
In 2007 they stood at #1502 and #1573 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #2721 and #1391.
Mila Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1805 and #2189 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #2167 and #1313.
Ada Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1459 and #1617 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #1796 and #951.
Aria Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1459 and #1715 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #1796 and #1295.

Moved the opposite way to Elaina

Amelia Compare
Between 1983 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Elaina went from #529 to #885 while Amelia went from #401 to #12.
Annie Compare
Between 1983 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Elaina went from #529 to #885 while Annie went from #224 to #33.
Ava Compare
Between 1983 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Elaina went from #529 to #885 while Ava went from #401 to #26.
Caoimhe Compare
Between 1983 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Elaina went from #529 to #885 while Caoimhe went from #167 to #31.

Moved the same way as Elaina

Aimee Compare
Between 1983 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Elaina went from #529 to #885 and Aimee from #219 to #885.
Aisling Compare
Between 1983 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Elaina went from #529 to #885 and Aisling from #31 to #180.
Alison Compare
Between 1983 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Elaina went from #529 to #885 and Alison from #73 to #213.
Amanda Compare
Between 1983 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Elaina went from #529 to #885 and Amanda from #45 to #608.

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 4 regions, from 1983 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #337 in Northern Ireland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Elaina

Elaina at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Elaina across 3 official records

Elaina by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Elaina appears in

Popularity data

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Elaina at a glance

Elaina across 3 official records

Elaina by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Elaina appears in

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1980s

Names published alongside Elaina

Elaina and the names beside it

Elaina moved ahead of

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