Yalena
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- yah-LEH-nah
- Origin
- Greek
- US rank, 2025
- #10,104 for girls
Yalena is a girls' name of Greek origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).
Where does Yalena come from?
Greek: probably a variant of Yelena, the Russian form of Helen
Is Yalena a girl's or a boy's name?
Yalena 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 Yalena 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 Yalena, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 15 girls. It first appears in the records in 2001.
Half of all the girls named Yalena in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Yalena in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,104 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,551 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,307 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,377 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,712 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,146 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,295 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,599 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,476 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,063 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,577 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,424 |
| 2011 | 6 | #14,816 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,240 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,698 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,080 |
| 2007 | 7 | #13,918 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,415 |
| 2005 | 9 | #10,915 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,259 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,500 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,426 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,345 |
Nicknames for Yalena
- Lena 185 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Yalena
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Amora, Alara, Elina, Elara, Alessia, Lyra, Sophia, Ximena, Alora, Luna, Briella, Camila
Names related to Yalena
Aleena, Alena, Aleyna, Aylen, Aleina, Yalani, Alenna, Allena
More Greek names
Luca, Theodore, George, Theo, Lucas, Sofia, Alexander, Sebastian, Penelope, Phoebe, Margot, Luke, Chloe, Sophie, Zoe, Iris
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, “Yalena: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yalena, updated 20 October 2026.