Elén
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: SCB, 2020
/elen/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Elén is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In the Netherlands it is the 61st most common given name.
- SESweden1 in 338as Ellen(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 464as Ellen
- DKDenmark1 in 500as Ellen
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Elén itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #426 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 580 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
173,112 named Ellen, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ellen in US United States, GB United Kingdom, DE Germany and 6 more, Elen in BR Brazil and Էլեն in AM Armenia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Elén counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #190 | 173,112as Ellen | 1 in 1.9K | 173K | Ellen | 580 |
| BR Brazil | #863 | 61,520as Ellen | 1 in 3.4K | 62K | Elen | 128 |
| GB United Kingdom | #195 | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 14 | Ellen | 296 |
| PH Philippines | #457 | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Ellen | 132 |
| DE Germany | #341 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 1 | Ellen | 212 |
| SE Sweden | #141 | 30,207as Ellen | 1 in 338 | 30K | Ellen | 108 |
| FI Finland | — | 13,378as Ellen | 1 in 416 | 24K | Ellen | 48 |
| NO Norway | #114 | 11,778as Ellen | 1 in 464 | 33K | Ellen | 107 |
| DK Denmark | #175 | 11,739as Ellen | 1 in 500 | 12K | Ellen | 126 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 5,726 | 1 in 1.9K | 5.7K | — | 3 |
| AM Armenia | #100 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 540 | 298 | Էլեն | 55 |
| NL Netherlands | #61 | 997as Elle | 1 in 17K | 17K | Ellen | 131 |
173,112 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); the de-leipzig-vornamen register; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia — Most Frequent Newborn Given Names by Sex, Armenian script, 2008-2020 + 2023; MVČR — living population register 2017. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 48 | #13,921 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 12 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 12 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 12 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 12 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 11 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Elén?
- A machine transcription gives /elen/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Elén a male or female name?
- Elén 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.
- In which country does Elén have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 173 thousand people named Ellen, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Elén most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Elén is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 1.9 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Elén?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 5,726 people named Elén, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Elén compared with other names?
- In the United States, Elén is the 190th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Elén?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/el%C3%A9nThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Elén” — the 190th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.