How Many People Are Named Jelena?
people named Jelena are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 212,685 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,633 babies named Jelena in Social Security records from 1959 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
68 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Form of YELENA. In Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia it is also associated with the South Slavic words jelen meaning "deer, stag" and jela meaning "fir tree".
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Jelena in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Jelena alive today is about 20 years old, and 78% are under 30. Half of them were between 9 and 27 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Jelena first appears in the records in 1959 and was given most often in 2017, to 68 babies. In 2025, 26 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1959 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Jelena has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #2,583, in 2017. In 2025 it ranked #5,029.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #5,029 |
| Best rank | #2,583 (2017) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #3,112 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Jelena alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Jelena were born in California than in any other state: about 144 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Jelena was given 2.9 times as often in Illinois, 2.7 times in Florida and 2.3 times in California.
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