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Eula vs Eulalie

American parents have registered 47,491 Eulas since 1880, against 763 Eulalies. Eula is still ahead, with 5 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Eula against Eulalie, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Eula Eulalie

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 138 years in which either name was published, Eula for 136 years and Eulalie for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Eula Eulalie
Total US births 47,491763
Most in one year 1,40026
Babies in 2025 5under 5
Estimated living today 7,600120
Median age today 7812
Peak year 19191926
Best rank 159th girls1,623rd girls
Rank in 2025 14,942ndunranked
First recorded 18801885
Girls / boys 47,159 / 332763 / 0

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 Eulas alive today are over 78; half the Eulalies are over 12. That is 66 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Eula Eulalie
England and Wales 164

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: Eula and Eulalie.