Ellena

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Ellena: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #312, and it stood at #2,253 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
29times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#312highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

England and Wales · Girls

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#364
1997	#329
1998	#312
1999	#383
2000	#344
2001	#370
2002	#409
2003	#516
2004	#459
2005	#530
2006	#649
2007	#637
2008	#790
2009	#783
2010	#965
2011	#789
2012	#758
2013	#944
2014	#859
2015	#871
2016	#1241
2017	#1184
2018	#1170
2019	#1252
2020	#1618
2021	#2073
2022	#3970
2023	#2927
2024	#2253

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #364 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: #312 among girls in England and Wales, in 1998 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2253 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Ellena 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 Ellena in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	395	4 of 10	99
2000sbusiest	659	10 of 10	66
2010s	370	10 of 10	37
2020s	56	5 of 10	11

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 66 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1998 and 1999, when recorded births fell by 31, from 115 to 84.

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

Ellena appears in

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

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #312 in England and Wales in 1998.

Ellena'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	#2253	12	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2927	8	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3970	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2073	13	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1618	18	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1252	26	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1170	29	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1184	29	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1241	27	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#871	42	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#859	44	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#944	39	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#758	52	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#789	47	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#965	35	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#783	45	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#790	43	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#637	55	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#649	49	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#530	64	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#459	76	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#516	62	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#409	80	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#370	88	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#344	97	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#383	84	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#312	115	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#329	104	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#364	92	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #312, first reached in 1998.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 115 births, registered in England and Wales in 1998.

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.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
29 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years20 to 29 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#2,253position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
115births registered in its largest year, 1998100 to 199 births →

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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Elli · #165, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, 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.

Aled · #312, 29y
Tor-Arne · #312, 29y
Kathinka · #311, 28y
Ragni · #311, 25y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Aled · #312, 29y
Emmanuella · #312, 29y
Lucian · #312, 30y
Mea · #312, 25y

Ellena was ranked #312 in England and Wales · Girls in 1998. 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.

Ellena 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 Ellena without appearing here.

Ellena moved ahead of

Brittany Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3970 and #3533 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2253 and #4843.
Katrina Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2927 and #2504 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2253 and #4192.
Shauna Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3970 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2927 and #4709.
Sinead Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2927 and #1705 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2253 and #3695.

Moved ahead of Ellena

Rory Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2073 and #2201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #3970 and #1452.
Julie Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2073 and #2499 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #3970 and #1849.
Selma Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2073 and #2201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #3970 and #2058.
Bernadette Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2073 and #2341 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #3970 and #2178.

Moved the opposite way to Ellena

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ellena went from #364 to #2253 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ellena went from #364 to #2253 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ellena went from #364 to #2253 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ellena went from #364 to #2253 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Ellena

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ellena went from #364 to #2253 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ellena went from #364 to #2253 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ellena went from #364 to #2253 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ellena went from #364 to #2253 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

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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.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #312 in England and Wales in 1998. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ellena

Ellena at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ellena by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Ellena at a glance

Ellena by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Ellena 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 Ellena

Ellena and the names beside it

Ellena moved ahead of

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