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Eliana vs Eliseo

American parents have registered 76,146 Elianas since 1880, against 11,996 Eliseos. Eliana is still ahead, with 8,196 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Eliana Eliseo

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 119 years in which either name was published, Eliseo for 79 years and Eliana for 40 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Eliana Eliseo
Total US births 76,14611,996
Most in one year 8,196547
Babies in 2025 8,196547
Estimated living today 76,00010,000
Median age today 718
Peak year 20252025
Best rank 10th girls550th boys
Rank in 2025 10th550th
First recorded 19611880
Girls / boys 76,104 / 420 / 11,996

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 Eliseos alive today are over 18; half the Elianas are over 7. That is 11 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 Eliseo
England and Wales 4,59249
France 3,935160
Switzerland 98769
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 Eliseo.