Beyonce vs Beyounce
American parents have registered 1,970 Beyonces since 1880, against 61 Beyounces. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Beyonce Beyounce
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
Beyonce has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1998 to 2022. The lead has never changed hands.
The closest they came was 2000, when Beyonce had 197 and Beyounce had 21.
Side by side
| Beyonce | Beyounce | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,970 | 61 |
| Most in one year | 353 | 21 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 2,000 | 60 |
| Median age today | 22 | 24 |
| Peak year | 2001 | 2000 |
| Best rank | 700th girls | 5,312th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1998 | 2000 |
| Girls / boys | 1,970 / 0 | 61 / 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 Beyounces alive today are over 24; half the Beyonces are over 22. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Compare something else
Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Beyonce and Beyounce.