Elanah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- e-LAH-na
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Elanah is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “tree”. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
What does Elanah mean?
Hebrew: spelling of Elana, itself a spelling of Ilana; also a spelling of Alana
“tree”
A spelling of the Hebrew name Ilana, tree.
Meaning borrowed from Elana.
Is Elanah a girl's or a boy's name?
Elanah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Elanah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,913th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 200,000 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, 8 girls in the US were named Elanah, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2006, with 9 girls. It first appears in the records in 2003.
2025 had more girls named Elanah than any year since 2015.
Half of all the girls named Elanah in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 125 girls in the US were given Elanah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,443, up from #10,913 for this spelling alone.
Elanah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,246 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,532 |
| 2018 | 6 | #13,788 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,063 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,477 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,146 |
| 2010 | 5 | #16,985 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,236 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,399 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,485 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,412 |
| 2005 | 8 | #11,828 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,837 |
Names like Elanah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Hadassah, Selah, Dalilah, Azariah, Delilah, Kaliyah, Zaniyah, Zariah, Aaliyah, Taliyah, Neriah, Sariyah
Other spellings of Elanah
Names related to Elanah
Eliana, Elliana, Elaina, Elianna, Alena, Elani, Elayna, Eliyanah
More Hebrew names
Noah, Isabella, Elijah, James, Jack, Mia, Ava, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias
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, “Elanah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/elanah, updated 20 October 2026.