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Eleazar vs Eleuterio

American parents have registered 6,158 Eleazars since 1880, against 756 Eleuterios. Eleazar is still ahead, with 189 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Eleazar against Eleuterio, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Eleazar 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 109 years in which either name was published, Eleazar for 99 years and Eleuterio for 10 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Eleazar Eleuterio
Total US births 6,158756
Most in one year 19518
Babies in 2025 189under 5
Estimated living today 5,700490
Median age today 2043
Peak year 20231926
Best rank 1,096th boys1,846th boys
Rank in 2025 1,128thunranked
First recorded 19191917
Girls / boys 7 / 6,1510 / 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 Eleazars are over 20. That is 23 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: Eleazar and Eleuterio.