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Bay vs Bayron

American parents have registered 1,669 Bayrons since 1880, against 727 Bays. Bayron is still ahead, with 44 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Bay against Bayron, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Bay Bayron

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 49 years in which either name was published, Bayron for 38 years and Bay for 11 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Bay Bayron
Total US births 7271,669
Most in one year 81149
Babies in 2025 744
Estimated living today 7001,600
Median age today 1213
Peak year 20142009
Best rank 2,412th girls1,209th boys
Rank in 2025 11,932nd2,833rd
First recorded 19161977
Girls / boys 523 / 2040 / 1,669

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

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: Bay and Bayron.