Elainah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- e-LAY-na
- Origin
- Greek
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Elainah is a girls' name of Greek origin. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
What does Elainah mean?
Greek: spelling of Elaina, itself a spelling of Elaine or Elena, forms of Helen
A modern spelling of Elaine or Elena, both forms of Helen.
Meaning borrowed from Elaina. More on Wiktionary.
Is Elainah a girl's or a boy's name?
Elainah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Elainah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 13,203rd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Elainah, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2013, with 16 girls. It first appears in the records in 2006.
Half of all the girls named Elainah in the US since 1880 were born between 2011 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 6,305 girls in the US were given Elainah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #33, up from #13,203 for this spelling alone.
Elainah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,307 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,536 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,201 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,422 |
| 2017 | 10 | #9,939 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,599 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,263 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,480 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,368 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,251 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,146 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,442 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,288 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,080 |
| 2007 | 7 | #13,918 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,412 |
Nicknames for Elainah
- Lainey 257 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Elainah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Hadassah, Zaniyah, Zaliyah, Aaliyah, Kaliyah, Nusaybah, Naziyah, Sariyah, Kamiyah, Jaliyah, Zariah, Aziyah
Other spellings of Elainah
Elena, Elaina, Elayna, Ellena, Elenna, Eleena, Ellaina, Elainna, Elaynah, Ellayna
Names related to Elainah
More Greek names
Luca, Theodore, Sophia, George, Theo, Lucas, Sofia, Alexander, Sebastian, Penelope, Phoebe, Margot, Luke, Chloe, Sophie, Zoe
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Elainah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/elainah, updated 20 October 2026.