Elanna
Feminine · “Hebrew ilana”
Israel has a new year for trees. Tu BiShvat falls in midwinter, marks the point at which sap begins to rise, and became in the twentieth century a day for planting. Hebrew ilan is a tree, and the modern Israeli name stock is full of them, along with the seasons, the weather and the times of day.
How old is the name Elanna?
Elanna first appears in US birth records in 1967 — 58 years ago. The typical Elanna alive today was born around 2008, making them about 17 years old. About 600 people named Elanna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Elanna most popular?
Elanna peaked in 2014, reaching #5163 nationally. Today it ranks #8860, 3,697 places below that high. See the whole 2014 chart.
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Where it comes from
From ilan to Elanna
The story of Elanna
Tu BiShvat is a minor date in the rabbinic calendar with a technical purpose: it fixed the year for calculating agricultural tithes on fruit. Its modern character is quite different. Zionist settlement in the early twentieth century made it a day for planting trees, and the Jewish National Fund built a whole practice around it, so that generations of children in Israel and abroad planted saplings or collected money for them on that date. The date's association with trees, arboriculture and the physical land is entirely modern and entirely deliberate. The name Ilana belongs to the same program: a revived language building a native name stock from its own vocabulary, and choosing words about growth, land, water and light. Ilan, Ilana, Alon, an oak, Tamar, a date palm, Vered, a rose, and Sivan and Nisan, months, are all part of it.
Meaningscholars disagree
Hebrew ilana, a tree
Elanna is most likely a spelling of Elana or Ilana, from Hebrew ilan, a tree, with a feminine ending. The name belongs to the modern Israeli stock of nature words used as given names. It may alternatively be read as a formation on the El- element, from Hebrew el, God, or as an American coinage. It peaks in 2014.
How the name formed
- ilan
- Ilana
- Elanna
Related forms: Ilana · Elana
Pronouncing Elanna
eh-LAN-ah
Three syllables, stress on the second. The Hebrew Ilana is ee-lah-NAH with the stress at the end. The doubled n marks the stressed vowel short in the English spelling.
Nicknames for Elanna
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1967
- Most girls named
- 201426 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #5163reached in 2014
- Change vs 2024
- 0.0%11 in 2025, from 11
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Elanna in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Ilana in Hebrew — transliteration
- Elana in English — spelling variant
Elannas among us
people named Elanna are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 146,115 born in 2025 was named Elanna
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Elanna
- #8860
- Elanna on the 2025 chart
- #835
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Elanna went to 11 girls in 2025, but Elana, Ellana and Elanah are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 125, which makes it the 835th most-given girls’ name of the year — 8,025 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 12,858 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 146,115 for Elanna itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Kessa test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Elanna's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Kessa climbed just as high around 1975, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Kessa's path sketches the road Elanna is walking now.
Elanna sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Elanna beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Elanna in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The Hebrew meaning is settled and concrete.
- Ella and Lana are two complete names as short forms.
- The rhythm is even and easy to say.
- Elana and Ilana are both more standard spellings.
- The Hebrew stress falls on the last syllable.
- Alanna and Elanna are easily confused.
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Frequently asked
- How many Elannas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Elanna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Elanna?
- Elanna is one of 4 recorded spellings. Elana is the more common one — 97 births in 2025 against 11 for Elanna.
- How popular is the name Elanna in 2025?
- Elanna ranks #8860 among US girl names in 2025, with 11 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Elanna?
- About 1 in every 146,115 US girls born in 2025 was named Elanna — 11 in all.
- Will my child share the name Elanna with classmates?
- Elanna will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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