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Ellianna vs Ellie

American parents have registered 106,857 Ellies since 1880, against 6,212 Elliannas. Ellie is still ahead, with 6,176 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ellianna against Ellie, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ellianna Ellie

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

Ellie 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 2023, when Ellianna had 483 and Ellie had 5,977.

Side by side

  Ellianna Ellie
Total US births 6,212106,857
Most in one year 4836,322
Babies in 2025 4506,176
Estimated living today 6,200102,000
Median age today 78
Peak year 20232024
Best rank 618th girls21st girls
Rank in 2025 642nd24th
First recorded 19941880
Girls / boys 6,212 / 0105,677 / 1,180

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.

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 Ellianna Ellie
England and Wales 11963,782
Scotland 47,913
Ireland 35,731

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: Ellianna and Ellie.