Originally, Lena was a short form of names like Helena, Magdalena, or Yelena. The meaning of Allie differs and is based on the name from which it was abbreviated.
Lena is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Lena isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Lena ranks 271. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 7 were named Lena. In the entire USA, approximately 104,911 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Lena. That is 0.03 % of all living Americans.
Lena is the epitome of endurance. Every year since first names have been registered in the United States, parents have come up with the idea of naming their daughter Lena. This means that several girls named Lena have witnessed historic events such as the first Nobel Prize ceremony, the moon landing, the release of the first cell phone, or the turn of the millennium. The first name Lena has reached its highest rank of 41 numerous times, but that was long ago before the beginning of the last century, last time in 1887. Nevertheless, the name has been in the top 100 repeatedly. This makes Lena one of the most popular names of all time.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Lena was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Lena will be Lena. Like every other year, there have been newborns named Lena in 2022 – in fact 1,217 to be precise, confirming Lena is still a popular first name. In this most recent year for which US-wide statistics are available, the name ranked #237 among all girls‘ names. For comparison, the least popular year for this first name was 1993, when only 414 baby girls were named Lena.
The name Lena may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Lena is apparently especially popular in Mississippi. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 654 women in Mississippi is called Lena. In total, that’s 2,945 women who feel addressed when the name Lena is shouted loudly across Mississippi and who ensure that their name makes it to #162 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Lena as the answer a total of 104,911 times. This places Lena at #321 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Lena as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names – 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 and S.
With four letters, the name Lena is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. 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.
That means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with an L, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which girls' name with L is the most common... the answer is Linda.
If your name is Lena 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 Lena, you can simply say:
Lion
Elephant
Nut
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lena
Lena
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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.
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. Lena sounds like this:
