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Elena

As a girl's name, Elena traces back to Spanish, where it is understood to mean "Spanish/Italian form of Helen". It is having a real moment, more popular in the 2010s than ever before. These days, it is neither rare nor overly common. It has quietly persisted through most of the last century of American birth records.

SpanishSpanish/Italian form of Helen
GreekGreek – "light" or "torch"
Births by decade
1900s
376
1910s
1,335
1920s
2,169
1930s
1,645
1940s
2,245
1950s
3,450
1960s
4,739
1970s
5,284
1980s
6,339
1990s
9,514
2000s
15,700
2010s
21,020
Peaked in the 2010s · 73,816 total U.S. births since 1900