Eleni

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Eleni: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #627 in 2001, and it stood at #790 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
32times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#627highest recorded position
9groupings 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	#916
1997	#736
1998	#724
1999	#952
2000	#748
2001	#627
2002	#890
2003	#844
2004	#788
2005	#695
2006	#869
2007	#755
2008	#790
2009	#932
2010	#862
2011	#894
2012	#749
2013	#839
2014	#699
2015	#845
2016	#994
2017	#808
2018	#791
2019	#694
2020	#765
2021	#767
2022	#910
2023	#706
2024	#837

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: #790 among girls in Scotland, #837 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 #916 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: #627 among girls in England and Wales, in 2001 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #837 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Eleni 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 1,169 births with the name.

Eleni 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.

Eleni'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	#916 (1996)	#627 (2001)	#837 (2024)	29 of 29	1,169 (1996–2024)	56 (2014)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#876 (2014)	#876 (2014)	#896 (2018)	2 of 5	6 (2014–2018)	3 (2014)

Eleni 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 Eleni in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	109	4 of 10	27
2000s	364	10 of 10	36
2010sbusiest	467	10 of 10	47
2020s	229	5 of 10	46

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 47 births a year.

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

Eleni 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: #627 in England and Wales in 2001.

Eleni'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	#837	44	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#706	51	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#910	38	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#767	48	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#765	48	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#694	56	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#791	48	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#808	48	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#994	36	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#845	44	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#699	56	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#839	45	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#749	53	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#894	40	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#862	41	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#932	35	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#790	43	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#755	44	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#869	34	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#695	44	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#788	35	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#844	31	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#890	26	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#627	41	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#748	31	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#952	22	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#724	32	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#736	32	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#916	23	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#790	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
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 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #627, first reached in 2001.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 56 births, registered in England and Wales in 2014.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2014, and 28 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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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.

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Cydney · #627, 28y
Lewie · #628, 28y
Roscoe · #628, 24y
Valentino · #628, 27y

Eleni was ranked #627 in England and Wales · Girls in 2001. 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.

Eleni 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 Eleni without appearing here.

Eleni moved ahead of

Tracey Compare
In 1996 they stood at #916 and #783 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #736 and #1450.
Shauna Compare
In 2009 they stood at #932 and #916 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #862 and #1429.
Levi Compare
In 2006 they stood at #869 and #835 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #755 and #1296.
Aimee Compare
In 2020 they stood at #765 and #749 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #767 and #1195.

Moved ahead of Eleni

Maja Compare
In 2005 they stood at #695 and #951 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #869 and #456.
Sienna Compare
In 1998 they stood at #724 and #1122 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #952 and #641.
Riley Compare
In 2014 they stood at #699 and #763 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #845 and #539.
Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #694 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #765 and #460.

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: #627 in England and Wales in 2001. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Eleni

Eleni at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Eleni across 2 official records

Eleni by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Eleni appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Eleni

Eleni and the names beside it

Eleni moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Eleni

Eleni at a glance

Eleni across 2 official records

Eleni by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Eleni 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 Eleni

Eleni and the names beside it

Eleni moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Eleni