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Eliana vs Elizebeth

American parents have registered 76,146 Elianas since 1880, against 4,603 Elizebeths. Eliana is still ahead, with 8,196 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Eliana Elizebeth

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, Elizebeth for 100 years and Eliana for 46 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Eliana Elizebeth
Total US births 76,1464,603
Most in one year 8,19695
Babies in 2025 8,196under 5
Estimated living today 76,0002,000
Median age today 757
Peak year 20251928
Best rank 10th girls724th girls
Rank in 2025 10thunranked
First recorded 19611880
Girls / boys 76,104 / 424,603 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Elizebeths alive today are over 57; half the Elianas are over 7. That is 50 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: Eliana and Elizebeth.