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Abeer vs Abelardo

American parents have registered 4,816 Abelardos since 1880, against 812 Abeers. Abelardo is still ahead, with 44 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Abeer against Abelardo, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Abeer 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

Abelardo has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1914 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2021, when Abeer had 36 and Abelardo had 49.

Side by side

  Abeer Abelardo
Total US births 8124,816
Most in one year 4199
Babies in 2025 2244
Estimated living today 8003,800
Median age today 1832
Peak year 20062002
Best rank 5,545th girls1,332nd boys
Rank in 2025 8,860th2,833rd
First recorded 19711914
Girls / boys 607 / 2050 / 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 Abelardos alive today are over 32; half the Abeers are over 18. That is 14 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Abeer Abelardo
France 255

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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