Abe vs Abelardo
American parents have registered 9,694 Abes since 1880, against 4,816 Abelardos. Abe is still ahead, with 64 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Abe Abelardo
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
Of the 146 years in which either name was published, Abe for 98 years and Abelardo for 48 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.
- 1880–1964 Abe ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1965–2008 Abelardo ahead, apart from one short spell
- 2009–2025 Abe ahead, apart from 2 short spells
6 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Abe | Abelardo | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 9,694 | 4,816 |
| Most in one year | 280 | 99 |
| Babies in 2025 | 64 | 44 |
| Estimated living today | 3,300 | 3,800 |
| Median age today | 35 | 32 |
| Peak year | 1917 | 2002 |
| Best rank | 324th boys | 1,332nd boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 2,207th | 2,833rd |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1914 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 9,694 | 0 / 4,816 |
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 Abes alive today are over 35; half the Abelardos are over 32. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Abe New York (5.5×), Mississippi (3.4×), Alabama (2.4×)
- Abelardo Texas (8.2×), Arizona (3.6×), California (3.0×)
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: Abe and Abelardo.