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Ellyana

Gender
Girl
Say it
el-ee-AH-na
Origin
Hebrew
US rank, 2025
#2,607 for girls

Ellyana is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “my God has answered”. In 2025 it ranked 2,607th for girls in the US (66 babies).

What does Ellyana mean?

Hebrew: variant of Eliana

“my God has answered”

Is Ellyana a girl's or a boy's name?

Ellyana is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 66 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Ellyana in the US?

Rank in 2025
2,607th among girls
Babies in 2025
66 about 1 in 24,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steady up 7% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 66 girls in the US were named Ellyana, making it the 2,607th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,549th. Its busiest year was 2014, with 113 girls. It first appears in the records in 2000.

It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Ellyana than any year since 2019.

Half of all the girls named Ellyana in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 11,101 girls in the US were given Ellyana or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #8, up from #2,607 for this spelling alone.

2000Busiest: 113 in 20142025
Ellyana in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202566#2,607
202468#2,585
202376#2,379
202285#2,208
202178#2,327
202067#2,549
201961#2,752
201869#2,532
201777#2,357
201686#2,221
201572#2,501
2014113#1,804
201387#2,152
201276#2,426
201178#2,369
201076#2,451
200957#2,999
200867#2,718
200760#2,964
200636#4,072
200527#4,824
200424#5,204
200321#5,581
200211#8,831
20010–
20008#10,738

Nicknames for Ellyana

Names like Ellyana

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Ellyana

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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, “Ellyana: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ellyana, updated 20 October 2026.