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Binh vs Binta

American parents have registered 613 Bintas since 1880, against 525 Binhs. Binta is still ahead, with 25 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Binh Binta

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 52 years in which either name was published, Binta for 32 years and Binh for 20 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Binh Binta
Total US births 525613
Most in one year 3428
Babies in 2025 under 525
Estimated living today 500610
Median age today 3616
Peak year 19842007
Best rank 1,979th boys5,097th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked5,099th
First recorded 19751972
Girls / boys 38 / 487613 / 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 Binhs alive today are over 36; half the Bintas are over 16. That is 20 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: Binh and Binta.