Lena Girl
How popular is Lena?
#279 girl name in 2025
1,106 baby girls were named Lena in the US in 2025, making it the 279th most popular girl name.
Lena popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #279 for girls (▼ 17 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 1,106 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (-5% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #273 in 2015, #271 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1917 (3,004 girls) |
| Highest rank | #41 in 1884 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.8% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Lena counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Lena family of names ranked #210 for girls in 2025 (#194 the year before), with 1,607 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Lena | 1,106 | 69% |
| Leanna | 300 | 19% |
| Lenna | 115 | 7% |
| Leana | 74 | 5% |
| Leannah | 6 | 0% |
| Leahna | 6 | 0% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Lena is most popular
Babies named Lena per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- District of Columbia: 2.4 per 1,000 (29 girls)
- South Dakota: 1.8 per 1,000 (26 girls)
- New Hampshire: 1.8 per 1,000 (33 girls)
- Pennsylvania: 1.7 per 1,000 (412 girls)
- Delaware: 1.7 per 1,000 (19 girls)
Lena by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 8,691 | #41 |
| 1890s | 12,491 | #42 |
| 1900s | 12,703 | #51 |
| 1910s | 23,624 | #66 |
| 1920s | 22,844 | #98 |
| 1930s | 10,539 | #144 |
| 1940s | 7,367 | #215 |
| 1950s | 5,732 | #308 |
| 1960s | 5,193 | #391 |
| 1970s | 4,680 | #412 |
| 1980s | 4,583 | #424 |
| 1990s | 4,484 | #501 |
| 2000s | 6,097 | #415 |
| 2010s | 10,516 | #267 |
| 2020s | 6,935 | #254 |
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Questions
- Is Lena a boy or girl name?
- Lena is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Lena were girls.
- How popular is the name Lena?
- 1,106 baby girls were named Lena in the US in 2025, making it the 279th most popular girl name.
- When was Lena most popular?
- Lena peaked in 1917, when 3,004 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #41 in 1884.
- How many people are named Lena?
- 146,805 babies have been named Lena in the US since 1880. We estimate about 54,318 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 35.
- Where is Lena most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Lena was most common in District of Columbia, at 2.4 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.