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Elenia is becoming popular in Germany, though it's still rare (#467).
I don't have an valid informations on this name, but the explanation seems logical to me. There are many names with a similar style, that are quite popular in Germany right now, so it figures, that some of them get mixed up, creating new names.

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Elenia should be one of the many possible transcriptions of Еленя (Yelenya), which is a Russian diminutive of Yelena (which is often variantly transcribed as Elena).

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You see, the standard transcription of the Russian capital letter Е is Ye, but it is often variantly transcribed as E because that is just a tad easier and more recognisable (especially for those unfamiliar with the Russian language). Some other languages will transcribe the letter as Je (see Jelena, for example).

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Similarly, the standard transcription of the Russian lower-case letter я is ya, but it is often variantly transcribed as ia and in some other languages as ja. For example, compare Tatyana with Tatiana and Tatjana.

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So, for Еленя (Yelenya) you can get all manner of transcriptions, and Elenia is one of them.

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Name sources used:
- https://imya.com/name/9513 (in Russian)
- http://kurufin.ru/html/Rus_names/rus_e.html (in Russian; scroll down until you see "Helena" in one of the columns on the right)
- http://kurufin.ru/html/Translate/elena.html (in Russian)