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Ellarose vs Elliott

American parents have registered 70,719 Elliotts since 1880, against 894 Ellaroses. Elliott is still ahead, with 2,776 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ellarose against Elliott, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ellarose Elliott

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

Elliott 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 2020, when Ellarose had 90 and Elliott had 2,996.

Side by side

  Ellarose Elliott
Total US births 89470,719
Most in one year 903,126
Babies in 2025 412,776
Estimated living today 89062,000
Median age today 711
Peak year 20202019
Best rank 2,050th girls161st boys
Rank in 2025 3,645th160th
First recorded 20031880
Girls / boys 894 / 08,168 / 62,551

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 Elliotts alive today are over 11; half the Ellaroses are over 7. That is 4 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 Ellarose Elliott
England and Wales 8317,508
Ireland 53 Ella Rose588

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: Ellarose and Elliott.