Jelena is a first name for girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Jelena is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 girls have been named Jelena. In the SmartGenius ranking, Jelena is #2,969 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Jelena.
In fact, the name Jelena did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Jelena seemed to be more popular than ever in 2017. Although the name never ranked higher than #2,330, 68 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Jelena, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Jelena was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Jelena a few times. Among all newborn girls it ranked #3,505 - with a total of 37 baby girls. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving girls with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Jelena are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Jelena is registered in 10 states, among which are California, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana or Michigan. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Jelena live in Florida, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 77,940 would turn around if you called the name Jelena across Florida.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names. That’s because 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A, S and M.
With six letters, the name Jelena is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with the letter J, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. And Jennifer is the girls' name starting with J, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Jelena and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Jelena, you can simply say:
Joker
Elephant
Lion
Elephant
Nut
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Jelena
Jelena
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
J
E
L
E
N
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
J
E
L
E
N
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Jelena sounds like this:
