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Baylor vs Bayron

American parents have registered 12,731 Baylors since 1880, against 1,669 Bayrons. Baylor is still ahead, with 1,229 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Baylor against Bayron, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Baylor 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, Baylor for 40 years and Bayron for 9 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Baylor Bayron
Total US births 12,7311,669
Most in one year 1,253149
Babies in 2025 1,22944
Estimated living today 13,0001,600
Median age today 513
Peak year 20242009
Best rank 365th boys1,209th boys
Rank in 2025 386th2,833rd
First recorded 19181977
Girls / boys 3,721 / 9,0100 / 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 Baylors are over 5. That is 8 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: Baylor and Bayron.