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Blondell vs Blouncie

American parents have registered 1,490 Blondells since 1880, against 8 Blouncies. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Blondell against Blouncie, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Blondell Blouncie

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

Blondell has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1906 to 1975. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1920, when Blondell had 24 and Blouncie had 8.

Side by side

  Blondell Blouncie
Total US births 1,4908
Most in one year 518
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 5900
Median age today 74105
Peak year 19341920
Best rank 1,019th girls3,208th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19061920
Girls / boys 1,475 / 150 / 8

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 Blouncies alive today are over 105; half the Blondells are over 74. That is 31 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Blondell and Blouncie.