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Alonda vs Alondra

American parents have registered 42,421 Alondras since 1880, against 877 Alondas. Alondra is still ahead, with 417 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Alonda against Alondra, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Alonda Alondra

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 75 years in which either name was published, Alondra for 49 years and Alonda for 26 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Alonda Alondra
Total US births 87742,421
Most in one year 392,728
Babies in 2025 under 5417
Estimated living today 82042,000
Median age today 4720
Peak year 19702005
Best rank 2,081st girls120th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked680th
First recorded 19491959
Girls / boys 877 / 042,299 / 122

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 Alondas alive today are over 47; half the Alondras are over 20. That is 27 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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