Elliana
Elliana was given to 2,099 girls in 2025, #139 among girls’ names; 28,058 Americans have been recorded with it since 1986 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 27,900 Americans named Elliana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elliana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Elliana mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Elliana is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Elliana?
#139 among girls’ names, 2025
Elliana rose from #301 in 2015 to #139 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.60 to 1.3 per 1,000.
2,365 babies in 2023, the peak
Elliana peaked in 2023, when 2,365 girls were given it, #115 among girls’ names. The 2,099 births of 2025 are 89% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,099 | #139 | 1.3 |
| 2024 | 2,083 | #141 | 1.3 |
| 2023 | 2,365 | #115 | 1.5 |
| 2022 | 2,125 | #131 | 1.3 |
| 2021 | 2,141 | #131 | 1.3 |
| 2020 | 2,018 | #133 | 1.2 |
| 2019 | 1,954 | #146 | 1.2 |
| 2018 | 1,589 | #188 | 0.93 |
| 2017 | 1,380 | #227 | 0.80 |
| 2016 | 1,267 | #250 | 0.72 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,070 | #301 | 0.60 |
| 2014 | 1,104 | #296 | 0.62 |
| 2013 | 1,081 | #295 | 0.62 |
| 2012 | 1,063 | #300 | 0.60 |
| 2011 | 939 | #338 | 0.53 |
| 2010 | 748 | #421 | 0.42 |
| 2009 | 587 | #516 | 0.32 |
| 2008 | 579 | #530 | 0.31 |
| 2007 | 407 | #719 | 0.21 |
| 2006 | 309 | #862 | 0.16 |
| 2005 | 270 | #921 | 0.15 |
| 2004 | 203 | #1,123 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 162 | #1,283 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 154 | #1,274 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 73 | #2,217 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 79 | #2,075 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 51 | #2,705 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 45 | #2,894 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,156 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,592 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,049 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,098 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,144 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,170 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,555 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,825 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,250 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,739 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Elliana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elliana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Elliana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elliana, and how old are they?
27,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 28,058 Americans ever recorded as Elliana. The median Elliana alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 13,571 people named Elliana (13,566 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 15,633 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 85 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,650 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 22,100 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Elliana born?
The states with the most babies named Elliana are California, Texas and Ohio, with 26% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 220 | #137 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 199 | #163 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 124 | #70 | 1.5× |
| Florida | 113 | #157 | 0.8× |
| New York | 102 | #160 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 89 | #114 | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 82 | #122 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 78 | #100 | 1.5× |
| Illinois | 73 | #132 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 59 | #170 | 0.7× |
Where Elliana is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Elliana is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1986 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Elliana with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 173,760 babies since 1880, Elliana is the third most given (16% of them). In 2025 it was given to 2,099 of their 13,816 babies (15%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Elliana
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Elliana and names like it
- Compare Elliana and ElianaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sElliana peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elliana since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Elliana.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Elliana alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.