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Eliana vs Eliaz

American parents have registered 76,146 Elianas since 1880, against 507 Eliazes. Eliana is still ahead, with 8,196 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Eliana against Eliaz, 1880 to 2025 0 2.5k 5k 7.5k 10k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Eliana Eliaz

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

Eliana has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1961 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1999, when Eliana had 381 and Eliaz had 12.

Side by side

  Eliana Eliaz
Total US births 76,146507
Most in one year 8,19636
Babies in 2025 8,19636
Estimated living today 76,000500
Median age today 79
Peak year 20252025
Best rank 10th girls3,240th boys
Rank in 2025 10th3,240th
First recorded 19611998
Girls / boys 76,104 / 420 / 507

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 Eliazes alive today are over 9; half the Elianas are over 7. That is 2 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Eliana Eliaz
France 3,935835
England and Wales 4,5923
Belgium 9166

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: Eliana and Eliaz.