Babyboy vs Babygirl
American parents have registered 2,291 Babyboys since 1880, against 2,075 Babygirls. But in 2025 it was Babygirl that was commoner, 16 babies to 15.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Babyboy Babygirl
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 45 years in which either name was published, Babyboy for 30 years and Babygirl for 15 years. The lead changed hands 16 times.
- 1979–1983 Babygirl ahead
- 1984–1999 Babyboy ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 2003–2005 Babygirl ahead
- 2006–2015 Babyboy ahead
- 2021–2023 Babygirl ahead
10 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Babyboy | Babygirl | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 2,291 | 2,075 |
| Most in one year | 141 | 107 |
| Babies in 2025 | 15 | 16 |
| Estimated living today | 2,200 | 2,000 |
| Median age today | 26 | 26 |
| Peak year | 1998 | 1991 |
| Best rank | 977th boys | 1,478th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 5,861st | 6,838th |
| First recorded | 1983 | 1979 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 2,291 | 2,069 / 6 |
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.
Where each one is strongest
- Babyboy the District of Columbia (11.6×), Nevada (4.7×), Washington (3.8×)
- Babygirl the District of Columbia (12.2×), Texas (3.9×), Connecticut (3.6×)
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: Babyboy and Babygirl.