Lena
Lena is ranked 263rd among girls in 2024 (1,211 births). Its best rank was 41st, in 1884.
- Rank in 2024
- #263up 7 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,2110.08% of girls
- Peak year
- 19173,004 births
- Best rank
- #41in 1884
- Since 1880
- 145,356people given the name
The story in the numbers
145,356 girls have been named Lena in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 3,004 births — 0.28% of all girls recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 280 → 263).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1925, and the 1910s alone account for 16%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 41 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Lena | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 8,691 | |
| 1890s | 12,491 | |
| 1900s | 12,703 | |
| 1910s | 23,624 | |
| 1920s | 22,844 | |
| 1930s | 10,537 | |
| 1940s | 7,367 | |
| 1950s | 5,733 | |
| 1960s | 5,194 | |
| 1970s | 4,681 | |
| 1980s | 4,582 | |
| 1990s | 4,482 | |
| 2000s | 6,093 | |
| 2010s | 10,513 | |
| 2020s | 5,821 |
In 1917, its biggest year
Lena was the 85th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1917 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1917.
Names that rose and fell with Lena
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Clarapeak 1918
- Lottiepeak 1916
- Leliapeak 1919
- Tilliepeak 1915
- Wilhelminapeak 1916
- Estellapeak 1921
- Sulapeak 1921
- Vinapeak 1920
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.