Lena
159
Babies in 2024
-62%
10-year change
2013
Peak · 427
-8%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Lena
Lena has been falling out of fashion as a UK girl's name. In 2024, 159 girls were registered with the name in England & Wales — down 62% on a decade earlier.
Lena reached its peak in 2013, when 427 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #128 for UK girls that year. That's roughly 37% of the peak — registrations have thinned out since.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 5,638 girls have been officially registered with the name Lena in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 3,288 girls were registered with the name, starting from 424 in 2014 and ending at 159 in 2024.