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Bayler vs Bayron

American parents have registered 1,669 Bayrons since 1880, against 578 Baylers. Bayron is still ahead, with 44 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Bayler 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

Bayron has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1977 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2023, when Bayler had 55 and Bayron had 60.

Side by side

  Bayler Bayron
Total US births 5781,669
Most in one year 55149
Babies in 2025 3644
Estimated living today 5701,600
Median age today 713
Peak year 20232009
Best rank 3,566th boys1,209th boys
Rank in 2025 5,399th2,833rd
First recorded 19991977
Girls / boys 215 / 3630 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Bayrons alive today are over 13; half the Baylers are over 7. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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: Bayler and Bayron.