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Elyanna vs Elyas

American parents have registered 2,084 Elyases since 1880, against 1,209 Elyannas. Elyas is still ahead, with 156 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Elyanna against Elyas, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Elyanna Elyas

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

Elyas has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1988 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2015, when Elyanna had 53 and Elyas had 57.

Side by side

  Elyanna Elyas
Total US births 1,2092,084
Most in one year 133164
Babies in 2025 133156
Estimated living today 1,2002,100
Median age today 67
Peak year 20252024
Best rank 1,581st girls1,224th boys
Rank in 2025 1,581st1,263rd
First recorded 19981988
Girls / boys 1,209 / 00 / 2,084

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 Elyanna Elyas
France 5754,650
England and Wales 40698
Belgium 26387
Switzerland 8396

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: Elyanna and Elyas.