Jelena

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Jelena: Recorded since 1952, it reached #183 in 1981, and it was last ranked in 2017.

2registrars recorded it
56times a registrar ranked it
66years from first to last
#183highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2017

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3126
1998	#2407
1999	#2770
2000	#2746
2001	#3262
2002	#2301
2004	#1836
2006	#4157
2007	#3667
2008	#3860
2009	#3422
2010	#5707
2011	#5785
2017	#5765

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 Norway in 42 of the 59 years from 1952 to 2010.

In 2010: #593 among girls in Norway, #5707 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1952–2017 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1952
First recorded at #414 among girls in Norway in 1952 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1952–2010
Highest recorded position: #183 among girls in Norway, in 1981 (recorded 1952–2010).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2017
Most recently recorded at #5765 among girls in England and Wales, in 2017.
England and Wales · Girls

Jelena appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 42 years beginning in 1952, and has registered 572 births with the name.

Jelena 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.

Jelena'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
Norway · Girls	#414 (1952)	#183 (1981)	#593 (2010)	42 of 59	572 (1952–2010)	33 (1986)
England and Wales · Girls	#3126 (1996)	#1836 (2004)	#5765 (2017)	14 of 22	71 (1996–2017)	11 (2004)

Jelena by decade in Norway · 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 Jelena in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1950s	4	1 of 10	4
1960s	77	10 of 10	8
1970s	153	10 of 10	15
1980sbusiest	262	10 of 10	26
1990s	63	8 of 10	8
2000s	9	2 of 10	5
2010s	4	1 of 10	4

Across Norway · Girls, the 1980s were its busiest decade, averaging 26 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Jelena 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 2 regions, from 1952 to 2017. Highest recorded position: #183 in Norway in 1981.

Jelena'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
2017	England and Wales	female	#5765	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#5707	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3422	6	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3860	5	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	#1836	11	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2301	7	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3262	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2746	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2770	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2407	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3126	4	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#593	4	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#549	5	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#605	4	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#509	6	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#530	6	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#498	7	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#580	5	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#643	4	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#606	5	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#406	10	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#268	20	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#224	26	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#307	16	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#225	25	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#184	33	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#188	29	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#200	26	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#226	22	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#195	27	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#183	31	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#198	27	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#256	18	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#224	22	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#306	14	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#254	18	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#245	18	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#339	12	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#345	11	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#303	14	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#290	14	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#309	12	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#320	11	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#372	9	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#357	9	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#476	5	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#351	9	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#396	7	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#425	6	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#456	5	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#440	5	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#287	11	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#414	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1952 and 2017, ranked in 53 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #183, first reached in 1981.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 33 births, registered in Norway in 1986.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 7 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 44 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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Jem · #764, 30y
Jemima · #157, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Eivor · #181, 56y
Karine · #186, 57y
Darina · #174, 55y
Frederik · #192, 55y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Franciszek · #182, 24y
Katrin · #182, 60y
Iwona · #181, 36y
Jone · #181, 70y

Jelena was ranked #183 in Norway · Girls in 1981. 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.

Jelena 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 Jelena without appearing here.

Jelena moved ahead of

Fionn Compare
In 2001 they stood at #3262 and #3262 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #2301 and #4137.
Gail Compare
In 2007 they stood at #3667 and #3667 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #3860 and #5545.
Lynette Compare
In 2008 they stood at #4157 and #2509 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #3422 and #4564.
Vicki Compare
In 2001 they stood at #3262 and #2023 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #2301 and #3409.

Moved ahead of Jelena

Selma Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1836 and #2112 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #4157 and #1153.
Hayden Compare
In 2006 they stood at #2746 and #3912 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #3667 and #1741.
Luca Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1836 and #2278 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #4157 and #2320.
Meabh Compare
In 2010 they stood at #3667 and #5201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #5785 and #4049.

Moved the opposite way to Jelena

Alexandra Compare
Between 1952 and 2010 in Norway · Girls, Jelena went from #414 to #593 while Alexandra went from #400 to #89.
Andrea Compare
Between 1952 and 2010 in Norway · Girls, Jelena went from #414 to #593 while Andrea went from #401 to #32.
Anna Compare
Between 1952 and 2010 in Norway · Girls, Jelena went from #414 to #593 while Anna went from #62 to #9.
Charlotte Compare
Between 1952 and 2010 in Norway · Girls, Jelena went from #414 to #593 while Charlotte went from #402 to #106.

Moved the same way as Jelena

Anette Compare
Between 1952 and 2010 in Norway · Girls, Jelena went from #414 to #593 and Anette from #218 to #399.
Annie Compare
Between 1952 and 2010 in Norway · Girls, Jelena went from #414 to #593 and Annie from #168 to #333.
Åse Compare
Between 1952 and 2010 in Norway · Girls, Jelena went from #414 to #593 and Åse from #31 to #359.
Astrid Compare
Between 1952 and 2010 in Norway · Girls, Jelena went from #414 to #593 and Astrid from #17 to #64.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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 2 regions, from 1952 to 2017. Highest recorded position: #183 in Norway in 1981. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Jelena

Jelena at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Jelena across 2 official records

Jelena by decade in Norway · Girls

Jelena appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1950s

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Jelena moved ahead of

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Jelena at a glance

Jelena across 2 official records

Jelena by decade in Norway · Girls

Jelena appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Jelena

Jelena and the names beside it

Jelena moved ahead of

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