Elaina

What Elaina means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Elaina yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #267 vs #951 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Elaina?

US: Steady: #292 in 2015, #267 now. England & Wales: Falling: down from #819 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 1,256 girls got the name (#254 that year). First in the US records in 1941.

How common

• About 1 in 1,367 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 6,845 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 5,964 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in ME (2.25 per 1,000 girls), ND (2.22 per 1,000 girls), WV (2.17 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Elaina is #267 in the US and #951 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Elaina were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Elena4,836 US · 307 E&W
• Alina2,204 US · 208 E&W
• Alana2,085 US · 190 E&W
• Alaina1,366 US · 49 E&W
• Alanna1,099 US · 44 E&W
• Alayna927 US · 214 E&W
• Elina355 US · 69 E&W
• Elani322 US · 10 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Elaina

Girls

• Zara#212“flower”^*
• Cora#113“maiden”^*
• Penelope#22possibly “duck”^*
• Athena#109Editor’s note Up from #157 in 2015 to #109 in 2025 in the US
• Gia#287Editor’s note Up from #372 in 2015 to #287 in 2025 in the US
• Georgia#99“farmer”^*

For a brother

• Azariah#472“Yah Has Helped”^*
• Orion#334possibly “heaven's light”^*
• Sebastian#16“august, venerable, exalted”^*
• Damian#109“to tame”^*
• Solomon#422“peace”^*
• Isaias#426Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #426 vs #3,256 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Greek, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Elaina’s. Rank is US 2025.