Meaning not yet researched.
Eliana: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8,191 in 2025. Its best rank was #10 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 99.9% of babies named Eliana in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Eliana: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8,191 girls in 2025. Peak: #10 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 8,191 (2025).
In 2025, 8,191 US girls were named Eliana, making it the 10th most common girls’ name of the year, up 8 places from #18 in 2024. That is 1,744 more than the 6,447 girls named Eliana in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #10, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 8,191. For comparison, it was #102 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Eliana in 63 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1961 with 5 babies. In all, 76,146 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 33,374 babies named Eliana.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 47,145 US girls were named Eliana; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 8,191. In 2025 that was about 1 in 196 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Eliana ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #6 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 48 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Elliana (28,058 babies since 1880), Elianna (13,497 babies since 1880), Aliana (9,065 babies since 1880) and Elana (8,909 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ilianna, Elianah and Ellaina are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Ella, Elle and Ellie.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ilianna (1,174), Elianah (759), Ellaina (634), Ellieana (535), Yliana (510), Elainna (282), Eliannah (267), Ellianah (263), Ellayna (242), Eliyanna (222), Illana (169), Elyanah (153), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 2 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 206 | #6 | #80 |
| New Mexico | 57 | #6 | #56 |
| North Carolina | 321 | #8 | #145 |
| Arizona | 242 | #8 | #108 |
| Texas | 1,275 | #9 | #84 |
| California | 1,323 | #9 | #79 |
| Florida | 515 | #10 | #107 |
| Illinois | 281 | #11 | #88 |
| Hawaii | 27 | #11 | #58 |
| New York | 466 | #11 | #73 |
| Georgia | 259 | #11 | #164 |
| Washington | 182 | #12 | #74 |
| Virginia | 218 | #12 | #95 |
| Nevada | 77 | #12 | #94 |
| Oklahoma | 96 | #13 | #161 |
| New Jersey | 240 | #15 | #77 |
| District of Columbia | 21 | #16 | #34 |
| Connecticut | 81 | #16 | #98 |
| Rhode Island | 25 | #18 | #95 |
| Delaware | 20 | #18 | #118 |
| Nebraska | 47 | #20 | #207 |
| Colorado | 131 | #20 | #62 |
| Indiana | 146 | #21 | #111 |
| Kansas | 69 | #22 | #125 |
| Tennessee | 170 | #23 | #156 |
| Oregon | 71 | #23 | #80 |
| Wyoming | 9 | #24 | #106 |
| Michigan | 172 | #24 | #102 |
| Iowa | 67 | #26 | #138 |
| South Carolina | 89 | #26 | #258 |
| Louisiana | 75 | #27 | #218 |
| Pennsylvania | 202 | #30 | #112 |
| Arkansas | 50 | #32 | #245 |
| Minnesota | 96 | #32 | #95 |
| Kentucky | 81 | #32 | #219 |
| West Virginia | 31 | #33 | #316 |
| Ohio | 185 | #35 | #130 |
| Massachusetts | 118 | #35 | #93 |
| Idaho | 37 | #36 | #128 |
| Missouri | 100 | #39 | #146 |
| Alaska | 11 | #40 | #191 |
| Wisconsin | 83 | #40 | #121 |
| Alabama | 67 | #47 | #366 |
| New Hampshire | 18 | #58 | #153 |
| North Dakota | 13 | #61 | #228 |
| South Dakota | 14 | #63 | #194 |
| Utah | 58 | #63 | #175 |
| Mississippi | 27 | #78 | #599 |
| Maine | 10 | #102 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8,191 | #10 | 5 | #12,563 |
| 2024 | 6,447 | #18 | — | — |
| 2023 | 5,357 | #34 | 5 | #12,767 |
| 2022 | 4,814 | #41 | 5 | #12,892 |
| 2021 | 4,460 | #47 | — | — |
| 2020 | 4,090 | #53 | — | — |
| 2019 | 3,891 | #62 | — | — |
| 2018 | 3,405 | #84 | — | — |
| 2017 | 3,283 | #88 | — | — |
| 2016 | 3,207 | #93 | — | — |
| 2015 | 2,992 | #102 | 5 | #12,606 |
| 2014 | 2,744 | #117 | — | — |
| 2013 | 2,612 | #125 | — | — |
| 2012 | 2,249 | #144 | 5 | #12,819 |
| 2011 | 2,015 | #155 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,835 | #168 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,699 | #193 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,666 | #201 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,399 | #248 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,203 | #278 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,052 | #304 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,013 | #314 | — | — |
| 2003 | 890 | #347 | — | — |
| 2002 | 746 | #393 | — | — |
| 2001 | 564 | #493 | — | — |
| 2000 | 483 | #537 | — | — |
| 1999 | 381 | #624 | — | — |
| 1998 | 313 | #708 | — | — |
| 1997 | 267 | #782 | — | — |
| 1996 | 223 | #886 | — | — |
| 1995 | 171 | #1,050 | — | — |
| 1994 | 186 | #995 | — | — |
| 1993 | 187 | #993 | — | — |
| 1992 | 213 | #917 | — | — |
| 1991 | 279 | #745 | — | — |
| 1990 | 148 | #1,165 | — | — |
| 1989 | 148 | #1,121 | — | — |
| 1988 | 134 | #1,143 | — | — |
| 1987 | 211 | #827 | 6 | #6,352 |
| 1986 | 481 | #451 | 11 | #3,951 |
| 1985 | 39 | #2,503 | — | — |
| 1984 | 45 | #2,200 | — | — |
| 1983 | 35 | #2,561 | — | — |
| 1982 | 36 | #2,599 | — | — |
| 1981 | 38 | #2,499 | — | — |
| 1980 | 41 | #2,357 | — | — |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,943 | — | — |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,537 | — | — |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,656 | — | — |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,697 | — | — |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,416 | — | — |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,743 | — | — |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,831 | — | — |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,108 | — | — |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,369 | — | — |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,512 | — | — |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,025 | — | — |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,877 | — | — |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,718 | — | — |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,027 | — | — |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,016 | — | — |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,679 | — | — |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,838 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).