Eleni

given name · Greek · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Eleni is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 2nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Greek and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Eleni (Eléni) är en nygrekisk form av → Helena.

rarermore common
  • RURussia1 in 26◐
  • UAUkraine1 in 30
  • GRGreece1 in 39

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈2.3M ●

across 13 countries

#6 ●

of 16M given names

10 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
583 ●

59M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 39 ◐

Greece

Spellings & scripts●

ЕленаCyrillic · Russian●34M records
ElenaLatin · Spanish●6.6M records
ΕλενηGreek · Greek●827K records
ילנהHebrew · Hebrew●151K records
ᲔლენეGeorgian · Georgian●97K records
리나Hangul · Korean●4.4K records
เรณThai · Thai●3.5K records
ሄለንEthiopic · Amharic●632 records
ԱլենArmenian · Armenian●613 records
হেলেনBengali · Bangla●82 records

20 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Elena in AR Argentina, MX Mexico, ES Spain and 5 more, Елена in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BG Bulgaria and 1 more, Helen in US United States, AU Australia, PH Philippines and 1 more and Helena in BR Brazil, PL Poland, NL Netherlands.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

recorded in Swedish

Eleni (Eléni) är en nygrekisk form av → Helena.

Sources 1

  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Eleni is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#239,876,69313M rec.—#3Елена275
UA Ukraine#210,421,04210M rec.—listedОлена153
IN India#255,827,3001.8M rec.—481Renu203
AR Argentina#502,854,3531.8M rec.—134KElena150
MX Mexico#221,760,6491.4M rec.—7.2KElena227
GB United Kingdom#111,663,9521.6M rec.—38Alan288
PE Peru#32733,299628K rec.——Elena96
AU Australia#17692,457660K rec.—106Helen301
TR Türkiye#131634,80676K rec.—3.3KЕлена60
VE Venezuela#40573,195432K rec.——Elena101
PH Philippines#12507,290485K rec.—27KHelen144
FR France#28506,990746K rec.1 in 134507KHelene362

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Greek829K51%
  • English588K36%
  • Portuguese157K10%
  • Albanian8.4K1%
  • German7.5K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Greek829,06351%
English588,29236%
Portuguese157,10810%
Albanian8,3531%
German7,5191%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Eleni is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese given name165K records spelled Eleni17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Mexico, Peru

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, Italian

    Also written Elení, Eleñi, Elèni, Eléni, Elenì

  • French given name3.1K records spelled Eleni6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Belgium

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Éléni, Elèni, Elénī, Élèni

  • a separate given name3.1K records spelled Eleni9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ethiopia, United Kingdom, Cyprus

    Also written Eléni, Éléni, Elenī, Eleni̲, Elèni

  • Norwegian Bokmål given name2.3K records spelled Eleni7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, United States, Sweden

    Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Eléni

  • Finnish given name1.3K records spelled Eleni3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Cyprus, Estonia

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Eléni

  • Croatian given name652 records spelled Eleni12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, United States

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Macedonian

    Also written Елени, Eléni, Elieni

  • Russian given name637 records spelled Eleni7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Cyprus, United States, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Елени, Елені, Еленй

39 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Eleni is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A transliteration of the Greek female given name Ελένη (Eléni).

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Samoan, Greece (a country in Southeast Europe)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Welsh, this year

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

01002003001960198020002020255 · 2024

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Eleni in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1946–2025
Yearrecords
19466
19488
19498
19508
19515
19539
19547
195510
195616
195718
195812
195915
196013
196117
196222
196327
196422
196525
196627
196738
196826
196922
197037
197142
197245
197340
197448
197550
197638
197756
197865
197948
198056
198153
198259
198360
198477
198581
198685
1987104
198881
1989106
1990111
199186
1992146
1993184
1994156
1995142
1996124
1997104
199895
1999127
2000126
2001115
2002143
2003118
2004122
2005126
2006141
2007137
2008145
2009146
2010121
2011150
2012124
2013151
2014158
2015134
2016162
2017139
2018118
2019163
2020149
2021170
2022187
2023215
2024255
2025240

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 78 years between 1946–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

12001400160018002000Helena Angelina Ducaina, b. 1242Eleni Karaindrou, b. 1941Eleni Gerasimidou, b. 1949Eleni Theocharous, b. 1953Ελένη Βιτάλη, b. 1954Eleni Tsaligopoulou, b. 1962Eleni Kounalakis, b. 1966Eleni Menegaki, b. 1969Eleni Foureira, b. 1987Eleni Antoniadou, b. 1988

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 67 sources across 35 countries.

Official registers attesting Eleni
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—11K#2,030
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20229.5K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—9.4K#1,790
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20207.7K#2,936
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—1.9K#229
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.2K#1,498
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020777—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—738#1,971
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—390#700
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—345#773
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026345#773
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—266#2,975

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 520 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Eleni?
We estimate roughly 2.3 million people bear Eleni (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Eleni have the most bearers?
Eleni is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled елена.
How common is Eleni compared with other names?
In Russia, Eleni is the 2nd most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
Is Eleni a male or female name?
Eleni is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Eleni mean?
Recorded meaning: Eleni (Eléni) är en nygrekisk form av → Helena.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Eleni” — the 2nd most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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