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Baldomero vs Balinda

American parents have registered 1,079 Baldomeros since 1880, against 648 Balindas. Baldomero is still ahead, with 5 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Baldomero against Balinda, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Baldomero Balinda

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 100 years in which either name was published, Baldomero for 77 years and Balinda for 23 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Baldomero Balinda
Total US births 1,079648
Most in one year 2634
Babies in 2025 5under 5
Estimated living today 750570
Median age today 4059
Peak year 19771961
Best rank 1,904th boys2,004th girls
Rank in 2025 12,008thunranked
First recorded 19161949
Girls / boys 0 / 1,079648 / 0

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 Balindas alive today are over 59; half the Baldomeros are over 40. That is 19 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: Baldomero and Balinda.