Baldemar vs Baltazar
American parents have registered 2,743 Baltazars since 1880, against 2,256 Baldemars. Baltazar is still ahead, with 45 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Baldemar Baltazar
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 111 years in which either name was published, Baltazar for 59 years and Baldemar for 52 years. The lead changed hands 18 times.
- 1915–1922 Baltazar ahead
- 1923–1976 Baldemar ahead, apart from 5 short spells
- 1983–2025 Baltazar ahead
11 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Baldemar | Baltazar | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 2,256 | 2,743 |
| Most in one year | 42 | 59 |
| Babies in 2025 | 10 | 45 |
| Estimated living today | 1,700 | 2,300 |
| Median age today | 42 | 28 |
| Peak year | 1989 | 2001 |
| Best rank | 1,793rd boys | 1,871st boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 7,679th | 2,798th |
| First recorded | 1920 | 1915 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 2,256 | 0 / 2,743 |
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 Baldemars alive today are over 42; half the Baltazars are over 28. That is 14 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Baldemar Texas (12.2×), California (0.6×)
- Baltazar Texas (6.9×), California (4.1×), Arizona (1.4×)
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: Baldemar and Baltazar.