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Elyanna

Gender
Girl
Say it
el-ee-AN-a
Origin
Hebrew
UK rank, 2025
#1,690 for girls
US rank, 2025
#1,581 for girls

Elyanna is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “my God has answered”. In 2025 it ranked 1,690th for girls in the UK (18 babies) and 1,581st for girls in the US (133 babies).

What does Elyanna mean?

Hebrew: spelling of Eliana

“my God has answered”

From Hebrew Eliana, joining El, God, with the verb anah, to answer.

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

Elyanna is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 18 girls in the UK and 133 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Elyanna in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#1,690among girls
Babies in 2025
18about 1 in 15,000 girls
Five-year trend
Newly popularnew in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 18 girls in the UK were named Elyanna, making it the 1,690th most popular name for girls.

It has been given to more girls each year for the last 5 years. 2025 had the most girls named Elyanna of any year since it first appeared, in 2017.

In 2025, 62 girls in the UK were given Elyanna or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #621, up from #1,690 for this spelling alone.

Among girls in 2025, it was 1,639th in England and Wales.

2017Busiest: 18 in 20252025
Elyanna in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202518#1,690
20246#3,758
20235#4,251
20224#4,870
20213#5,824
20200–
20190–
20180–
20174#4,967

How popular is Elyanna in the US?

Rank in 2025
#1,581among girls
Babies in 2025
133about 1 in 12,000 girls
Five-year trend
Risingup 75% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 133 girls in the US were named Elyanna, making it the 1,581st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,597th. It first appears in the records in 1998.

It has been given to more girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had the most girls named Elyanna of any year since it first appeared, in 1998.

Half of all the girls named Elyanna in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 2,029 girls in the US were given Elyanna or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #177, up from #1,581 for this spelling alone.

1998Busiest: 133 in 20252025
Elyanna in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
2025133#1,581
2024105#1,895
202383#2,244
202277#2,388
202181#2,266
202065#2,597
201967#2,593
201851#3,157
201752#3,091
201641#3,707
201553#3,129
201440#3,776
201323#5,642
201241#3,781
201138#3,915
201038#3,960
200943#3,676
200837#4,178
200732#4,566
200629#4,810
200513#8,325
200413#8,254
200316#6,880
20027#12,181
20019#10,095
20007#11,794
19999#9,472
19986#12,420

Nicknames for Elyanna

Names like Elyanna

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

Other spellings of Elyanna

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Elyanna: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/elyanna, updated 20 October 2026.