Ellayna
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- e-LAY-na
- Origin
- Greek
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Ellayna is a girls' name of Greek origin. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Ellayna 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 Ellayna a girl's or a boy's name?
Ellayna is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Ellayna in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 14,937th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 320,000 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, 5 girls in the US were named Ellayna, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 2010, with 16 girls. It first appears in the records in 1997.
Half of all the girls named Ellayna in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 6,305 girls in the US were given Ellayna or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #33, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.
Ellayna in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,156 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,188 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,141 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,245 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,106 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,146 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,685 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,599 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,263 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,124 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,131 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,800 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,779 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,510 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,375 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,574 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,003 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,412 |
| 2005 | 9 | #10,915 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,617 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,403 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,719 |
Nicknames for Ellayna
- Lainey 257 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Ellayna
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Elina, Elara, Briella, Lyra, Elora, Elianna, Eliza, Isla, Camila, Eliana, Alessia, Luna
Other spellings of Ellayna
Elena, Elaina, Elayna, Ellena, Elenna, Eleena, Ellaina, Elainna, Elaynah, Elainah
Names related to Ellayna
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, “Ellayna: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ellayna, updated 20 October 2026.