Ellana
Feminine
At rank four thousand and below, a name is on the list because five or six babies received it. Ellana's 1946 showing is that kind of number: not a fashion, but a handful of families, just above the threshold at which the records show anything at all.
How old is the name Ellana?
Ellana first appears in US birth records in 1946 — 79 years ago. The typical Ellana alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 600 people named Ellana are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Ellana most popular?
Ellana peaked in 1946, reaching #4417 nationally. Today it ranks #10107, 5,690 places below that high. See the whole 1946 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Ellana
American name records only report a name in a year when at least five children received it, which makes the bottom of the list a strange place. A name ranked in the four thousands appeared because five, six or seven families made the same decision independently, or sometimes because one extended family did. Move one child either way and the name vanishes from that year entirely. Reading a curve at that depth as a fashion is a mistake: it is closer to noise, and its shape says more about the reporting threshold than about taste. Ellana is a good example, and it is also a good example of convergence. Ella and Anna joined, Elena respelled, and the Hebrew Ilana, which means tree, all land on nearly the same sound in American English, so a single spelling can have several unrelated households behind it.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Ellana has no established etymology. It converges on several sources without belonging to any: Ella plus Anna, a respelling of Elena or Eleanor, and the Hebrew Ilana, meaning tree, are all plausible and none is documented. Names in this position in the data are usually family formations rather than borrowings.
Pronouncing Ellana
eh-LAH-nuh
Three syllables, stress on the second. Some families say ELL-uh-nuh with the stress at the front, which is what the doubled l suggests to an English reader.
Nicknames for Ellana
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
- 1946
- Most girls named
- 201029 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #4417reached in 1946
- Change vs 2024
- 0.0%9 in 2025, from 9
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.
Ellana in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Ilana in Hebrew — related form
- Elana in English — spelling variant
- Elena in Spanish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas.
Ellanas among us
people named Ellana are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 178,585 born in 2025 was named Ellana
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Ellana
- #10107
- Ellana on the 2025 chart
- #835
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Ellana went to 9 girls in 2025, but Elana, Elanna 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 — 9,272 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 12,858 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 178,585 for Ellana 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 Corra test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Ellana's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Corra climbed just as high around 1916, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Corra's path sketches the road Ellana is walking now.
Ellana 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
Ellana beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Ellana in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Ella and Lana are both complete names and both work as short forms.
- Three open syllables with no hard consonants.
- It is genuinely rare in every decade of the records.
- Two stress patterns are in use and neither is standard.
- Elena, Elana and Alanna will all be substituted for it.
- It has no documented meaning to offer.
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Frequently asked
- How many Ellanas 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 Ellana are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Ellana?
- Ellana is one of 4 recorded spellings. Elana is the more common one — 97 births in 2025 against 9 for Ellana.
- How popular is the name Ellana in 2025?
- Ellana ranks #10107 among US girl names in 2025, with 9 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Ellana?
- About 1 in every 178,585 US girls born in 2025 was named Ellana — 9 in all.
- Will my child share the name Ellana with classmates?
- Ellana will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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