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Elyana vs Elysia

American parents have registered 4,503 Elysias since 1880, against 2,252 Elyanas. But in 2025 it was Elyana that was commoner, 197 babies to 149.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Elyana against Elysia, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Elyana Elysia

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 63 years in which either name was published, Elysia for 53 years and Elyana for 10 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Elyana Elysia
Total US births 2,2524,503
Most in one year 197152
Babies in 2025 197149
Estimated living today 2,2004,400
Median age today 821
Peak year 20252002
Best rank 1,173rd girls1,288th girls
Rank in 2025 1,173rd1,443rd
First recorded 19861957
Girls / boys 2,252 / 04,496 / 7

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 Elysias alive today are over 21; half the Elyanas are over 8. That is 13 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 Elyana Elysia
France 2,970185
England and Wales 2241,449
Belgium 24341
Switzerland 8316

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: Elyana and Elysia.