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Ellianna vs Elliot

American parents have registered 65,600 Elliots since 1880, against 6,212 Elliannas. Elliot is still ahead, with 2,658 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Ellianna Elliot

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

Elliot 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 2023, when Ellianna had 483 and Elliot had 2,365.

Side by side

  Ellianna Elliot
Total US births 6,21265,600
Most in one year 4832,932
Babies in 2025 4502,658
Estimated living today 6,20061,000
Median age today 711
Peak year 20232022
Best rank 618th girls150th boys
Rank in 2025 642nd151st
First recorded 19941880
Girls / boys 6,212 / 07,008 / 58,592

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 Elliots alive today are over 11; half the Elliannas 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 Ellianna Elliot
England and Wales 11924,177
Scotland 41,851
Ireland 3848

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: Ellianna and Elliot.