Elana

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Elana: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #370 in 2004, and it stood at #898 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
43times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#370highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1434
1997	#1126
1998	#1319
1999	#952
2000	#1250
2001	#871
2002	#920
2003	#818
2004	#1383
2005	#890
2006	#1153
2007	#963
2008	#1135
2009	#1055
2010	#1150
2011	#1096
2012	#1297
2013	#1253
2014	#1040
2015	#1204
2016	#1416
2017	#1733
2018	#1111
2019	#1634
2020	#1238
2021	#1454
2022	#1383
2023	#1705
2024	#1353

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 every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #898 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1353 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1434 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #370 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2004 (recorded 1996–2024).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1353 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Elana appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 693 births with the name.

Elana 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.

Elana'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	#1434 (1996)	#818 (2003)	#1353 (2024)	29 of 29	693 (1996–2024)	34 (2014)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#471 (1996)	#370 (2004)	#898 (2024)	13 of 29	56 (1996–2024)	8 (2004)

Elana 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 Elana in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	65	4 of 10	16
2000sbusiest	255	10 of 10	26
2010s	262	10 of 10	26
2020s	111	5 of 10	22

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 26 births a year.

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

Elana 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 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #370 in Republic of Ireland in 2004.

Elana'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	#1353	24	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1705	17	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1383	23	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1454	21	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1238	26	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1634	18	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1111	31	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1733	17	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1416	23	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1204	28	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1040	34	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1253	27	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1297	25	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1096	31	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1150	28	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1055	30	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1135	26	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#963	31	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1153	23	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#890	31	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1383	16	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#818	32	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#920	25	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#871	26	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1250	15	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#952	22	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1319	14	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1126	17	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1434	12	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	female	#430	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#898	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#873	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#584	6	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	5	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#705	4	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#689	3	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#370	8	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#512	4	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#400	6	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	female	#496	4	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	female	#471	4	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 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #370, first reached in 2004.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 34 births, registered in England and Wales in 2014.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 14 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.

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Elani · #3518, 12y
Elanna · #893, 14y

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.

Ephraim · #370, 30y
Jazmine · #370, 29y
Lily-Anne · #370, 27y
Gino · #369, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Aime · #370, 17y
Cassidy · #370, 30y
Ephraim · #370, 30y
Jazmine · #370, 29y

Elana was ranked #370 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2004. 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.

Elana 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 Elana without appearing here.

Elana moved ahead of

Susan Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1733 and #1512 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1111 and #3518.
Sinead Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1705 and #1705 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1353 and #3695.
Janice Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1434 and #1364 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #1126 and #2738.
Lorraine Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1383 and #1312 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #890 and #2438.

Moved ahead of Elana

Maja Compare
In 2005 they stood at #890 and #951 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1153 and #456.
Blake Compare
In 2015 they stood at #1204 and #1240 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #1416 and #768.
Audrey Compare
In 2003 they stood at #818 and #1325 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #1383 and #736.
Fiadh Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1111 and #1436 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1634 and #1063.

Moved the opposite way to Elana

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Elana went from #471 to #898 while Abigail went from #142 to #79.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Elana went from #471 to #898 while Alma went from #534 to #213.
Amelia Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Elana went from #471 to #898 while Amelia went from #429 to #8.
Annie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Elana went from #471 to #898 while Annie went from #187 to #41.

Moved the same way as Elana

Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Elana went from #471 to #898 and Aimee from #76 to #275.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Elana went from #471 to #898 and Aisling from #17 to #154.
Alexandra Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Elana went from #471 to #898 and Alexandra from #98 to #145.
Alison Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Elana went from #471 to #898 and Alison from #46 to #275.

What's not yet available

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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 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #370 in Republic of Ireland in 2004. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Elana

Elana at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Elana across 2 official records

Elana by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Elana appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Elana at a glance

Elana across 2 official records

Elana by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Elana appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Elana

Elana and the names beside it

Elana moved ahead of

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