Elaynah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- e-LAY-na
- Origin
- Greek
- US rank, 2025
- #10,104 for girls
Elaynah is a girls' name of Greek origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).
What does Elaynah mean?
Greek: spelling of Elayna; modern spelling of Elena or Elaine
A modern spelling of Elena or Elaine, both forms of Helen.
Meaning borrowed from Elayna.
Is Elaynah a girl's or a boy's name?
Elaynah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Elaynah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,104th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 180,000 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, 9 girls in the US were named Elaynah, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2013, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 2006.
2025 had more girls named Elaynah than any year since 2019.
Half of all the girls named Elaynah in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 6,305 girls in the US were given Elaynah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #33, up from #10,104 for this spelling alone.
Elaynah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,104 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,288 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,188 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,467 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 10 | #9,939 |
| 2016 | 12 | #8,872 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,001 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,063 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,575 |
| 2012 | 5 | #16,863 |
| 2011 | 6 | #14,816 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,270 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,080 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,163 |
Nicknames for Elaynah
- Lainey 257 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Elaynah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Hadassah, Zaniyah, Zaliyah, Nusaybah, Naziyah, Kaliyah, Aaliyah, Sariyah, Kamiyah, Alaiyah, Amoura, Aziyah
Other spellings of Elaynah
Elena, Elaina, Elayna, Ellena, Elenna, Eleena, Ellaina, Elainna, Elainah, Ellayna
Names related to Elaynah
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, “Elaynah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/elaynah, updated 20 October 2026.