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Eleanore vs Eleuterio

American parents have registered 18,724 Eleanores since 1880, against 756 Eleuterios. Eleanore is still ahead, with 156 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Eleanore against Eleuterio, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Eleanore Eleuterio

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 146 years in which either name was published, Eleanore for 142 years and Eleuterio for 4 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Eleanore Eleuterio
Total US births 18,724756
Most in one year 76818
Babies in 2025 156under 5
Estimated living today 4,100490
Median age today 3443
Peak year 19211926
Best rank 235th girls1,846th boys
Rank in 2025 1,396thunranked
First recorded 18801917
Girls / boys 18,724 / 00 / 756

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Eleuterios alive today are over 43; half the Eleanores are over 34. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Eleanore and Eleuterio.