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Eula vs Eulene

American parents have registered 47,491 Eulas since 1880, against 593 Eulenes. Eula is still ahead, with 5 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Eula against Eulene, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Eula Eulene

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

Eula 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 1960, when Eula had 132 and Eulene had 8.

Side by side

  Eula Eulene
Total US births 47,491593
Most in one year 1,40028
Babies in 2025 5under 5
Estimated living today 7,600130
Median age today 7882
Peak year 19191931
Best rank 159th girls1,394th girls
Rank in 2025 14,942ndunranked
First recorded 18801912
Girls / boys 47,159 / 332593 / 0

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 Eulenes alive today are over 82; half the Eulas are over 78. That is 4 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.

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