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Eliaz vs Elizabeth

American parents have registered 1,693,973 Elizabeths since 1880, against 507 Eliazes. Elizabeth is still ahead, with 6,765 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Eliaz 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 Eliaz had 36 and Elizabeth had 6,765.

Side by side

  Eliaz Elizabeth
Total US births 5071,693,973
Most in one year 3620,841
Babies in 2025 366,765
Estimated living today 5001.1 million
Median age today 942
Peak year 20251990
Best rank 3,240th boys9th girls
Rank in 2025 3,240th17th
First recorded 19981880
Girls / boys 0 / 5071,688,757 / 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 Eliazes are over 9. That is 33 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 Eliaz Elizabeth
England and Wales 339,849
France 8354,935
Belgium 6564

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: Eliaz and Elizabeth.