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Eliana vs Eliezer

American parents have registered 76,146 Elianas since 1880, against 8,169 Eliezers. Eliana is still ahead, with 8,196 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Eliana Eliezer

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 78 years in which either name was published, Eliana for 40 years and Eliezer for 38 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Eliana Eliezer
Total US births 76,1468,169
Most in one year 8,196271
Babies in 2025 8,196271
Estimated living today 76,0007,900
Median age today 718
Peak year 20252025
Best rank 10th girls893rd boys
Rank in 2025 10th893rd
First recorded 19611947
Girls / boys 76,104 / 425 / 8,164

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 Eliezers alive today are over 18; half the Elianas are over 7. That is 11 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 Eliezer
England and Wales 4,592328
France 3,935365
Ireland 1823

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 Eliezer.