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Eleazar vs Elexa

American parents have registered 6,158 Eleazars since 1880, against 606 Elexas. Eleazar is still ahead, with 189 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Eleazar Elexa

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

Eleazar has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1919 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2006, when Eleazar had 145 and Elexa had 57.

Side by side

  Eleazar Elexa
Total US births 6,158606
Most in one year 19557
Babies in 2025 189under 5
Estimated living today 5,700600
Median age today 2020
Peak year 20232006
Best rank 1,096th boys2,978th girls
Rank in 2025 1,128thunranked
First recorded 19191981
Girls / boys 7 / 6,151606 / 0

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.

Where each one is strongest

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

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Eleazar Elexa
England and Wales 8634

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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