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Eliana vs Elio

American parents have registered 76,146 Elianas since 1880, against 5,174 Elios. Eliana is still ahead, with 8,196 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Eliana Elio

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 109 years in which either name was published, Elio for 60 years and Eliana for 49 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Eliana Elio
Total US births 76,1465,174
Most in one year 8,196818
Babies in 2025 8,196818
Estimated living today 76,0004,600
Median age today 74
Peak year 20252025
Best rank 10th girls388th boys
Rank in 2025 10th388th
First recorded 19611912
Girls / boys 76,104 / 420 / 5,174

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 Elianas alive today are over 7; half the Elios are over 4. That is 3 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 Elio
France 3,93519,950
England and Wales 4,592793
Italy 2,4532,582
Switzerland 9872,494
Belgium 916298
Poland 24211
Scotland 19319
Ireland 18226
Northern Ireland 743

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 Elio.