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Eliana vs Eliott

American parents have registered 76,146 Elianas since 1880, against 2,096 Eliotts. Eliana is still ahead, with 8,196 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Eliana Eliott

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 62 years and Eliott for 6 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Eliana Eliott
Total US births 76,1462,096
Most in one year 8,19680
Babies in 2025 8,19660
Estimated living today 76,0002,000
Median age today 714
Peak year 20252024
Best rank 10th girls1,957th boys
Rank in 2025 10th2,304th
First recorded 19611888
Girls / boys 76,104 / 420 / 2,096

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 Eliotts alive today are over 14; half the Elianas are over 7. That is 7 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 Eliott
France 3,93531,075
England and Wales 4,592359
Belgium 9161,988
Switzerland 987944
Poland 2429
Scotland 1936
Ireland 1824

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 Eliott.