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Elianna vs Elizabeth

American parents have registered 1,693,973 Elizabeths since 1880, against 13,497 Eliannas. Elizabeth is still ahead, with 6,765 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Elianna against Elizabeth, 1880 to 2025 0 6k 12k 18k 24k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Elianna Elizabeth

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

Elizabeth has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Elianna had 1,404 and Elizabeth had 6,765.

Side by side

  Elianna Elizabeth
Total US births 13,4971,693,973
Most in one year 1,40420,841
Babies in 2025 1,4046,765
Estimated living today 13,0001.1 million
Median age today 642
Peak year 20251990
Best rank 218th girls9th girls
Rank in 2025 218th17th
First recorded 19781880
Girls / boys 13,497 / 01,688,757 / 5,216

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 Elizabeths alive today are over 42; half the Eliannas are over 6. That is 36 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 Elianna Elizabeth
England and Wales 35739,849
Ireland 2415,078
Scotland 86,495
France 2354,935
Northern Ireland 3708
Belgium 7564
Poland 2340

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: Elianna and Elizabeth.