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Popularity of the name Eliana, 1961–2025

Eliana has never been more popular than it is now: in 2025, 8,191 girls were named Eliana, about 1 in 200 girls born in the U.S. that year, ranking #10. In all, Social Security counts 76,104 girls named Eliana since 1961. Social Security’s records also list 42 boys named Eliana.

Peak year
2025
Rank in 2025
#10
Babies in 2025
8,191
Total since 1961
76,104
Babies named Eliana per 1,000 girls born, 1961–2025How many of every 1,000 girls born each year were named Eliana. The table below lists every year.01.534.56198020002020
Babies given the name per 1,000 girls born each year. A gap is a year with fewer than 5.

Where it stands now

Over the last ten years it has climbed from #102 in 2015 to #10 in 2025, with 2,992 girls named Eliana in 2015 and 8,191 in 2025.

Decade by decade

Eliana ranked highest in the 2020s so far, at #33, with 33,359 girls given the name that decade. It started at #5,207 in the 1960s.

Every 20 years in the records: 41 in 1980 (#2,342), 483 in 2000 (#537) and 4,090 in 2020 (#53).

Highs and lows

The most girls given the name in a single year was 8,191, in 2025. Its best rank, #10, came in its peak year.

Every year

The table lists every year from 1961 to 2025 in which Social Security recorded at least 5 girls named Eliana, with the name’s rank that year.

Babies named Eliana by year
YearBabiesRank
19615#6,567
196313#3,635
196511#3,952
196611#3,959
19679#4,625
19689#4,779
196913#3,958
19709#5,413
197113#4,311
19728#5,959
197316#3,787
197417#3,695
197514#4,370
197613#4,614
197720#3,612
197821#3,512
197919#3,903
198041#2,342
198138#2,488
198236#2,581
198335#2,552
198445#2,192
198539#2,484
1986481#450
1987211#826
1988134#1,140
1989148#1,118
1990148#1,163
1991279#745
1992213#917
1993187#989
1994186#994
1995171#1,049
1996223#885
1997267#780
1998313#708
1999381#624
2000483#537
2001564#493
2002746#393
2003890#347
20041,013#314
20051,052#304
20061,203#278
20071,399#248
20081,666#201
20091,699#193
20101,835#168
20112,015#155
20122,249#144
20132,612#125
20142,744#117
20152,992#102
20163,207#93
20173,283#88
20183,405#84
20193,891#62
20204,090#53
20214,460#47
20224,814#41
20235,357#34
20246,447#18
20258,191#10

How these numbers are counted

Social Security publishes, for every year since 1880, how many babies of each sex were given each name, counting any name given to at least 5. A name’s rank is its place that year among names for the same sex, by number of babies. Names with the same count share a rank here, while Social Security’s own lists break ties alphabetically, so a rank can differ from theirs by a place or two. A name’s share is the number of babies given it divided by all babies of that sex in the data that year, and its peak is the year that share was highest. Shares rather than counts set the peak, because far more babies were born in some years than others: counting babies alone would pull nearly every name’s peak toward the 1946–1964 baby boom.

Source: the U.S. Social Security Administration’s national baby name data, from Social Security card applications for babies born in the U.S. A name is left out of a year when fewer than 5 babies of one sex got it, and counts before about 1937 are incomplete, because many people born then never applied for a card. See how Baby Boom builds its data. Figures may contain errors.