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Eliana vs Eliane

American parents have registered 76,146 Elianas since 1880, against 619 Elianes. Eliana is still ahead, with 8,196 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Eliana against Eliane, 1880 to 2025 0 2.5k 5k 7.5k 10k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Eliana Eliane

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 68 years in which either name was published, Eliana for 63 years and Eliane for 5 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Eliana Eliane
Total US births 76,146619
Most in one year 8,19641
Babies in 2025 8,19628
Estimated living today 76,000600
Median age today 717
Peak year 20252022
Best rank 10th girls3,703rd girls
Rank in 2025 10th4,758th
First recorded 19611924
Girls / boys 76,104 / 42619 / 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 Elianes alive today are over 17; half the Elianas are over 7. That is 10 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 Eliana Eliane
France 3,935114,185
England and Wales 4,59297
Switzerland 987813
Belgium 91655

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: Eliana and Eliane.