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Ellagrace vs Elliot

American parents have registered 65,600 Elliots since 1880, against 469 Ellagraces. Elliot is still ahead, with 2,658 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ellagrace against Elliot, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ellagrace Elliot

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

Elliot has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2009, when Ellagrace had 25 and Elliot had 1,283.

Side by side

  Ellagrace Elliot
Total US births 46965,600
Most in one year 322,932
Babies in 2025 172,658
Estimated living today 47061,000
Median age today 1011
Peak year 20132022
Best rank 4,422nd girls150th boys
Rank in 2025 6,546th151st
First recorded 20041880
Girls / boys 469 / 07,008 / 58,592

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.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Ellagrace and Elliot.