Buelah vs Buena
American parents have registered 1,363 Buelahs since 1880, against 987 Buenas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Buelah Buena
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 76 years in which either name was published, Buelah for 54 years and Buena for 22 years. The lead changed hands 19 times.
- 1882–1899 Buena ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1900–1954 Buelah ahead, apart from 3 short spells
- 1955–1959 Buena ahead
12 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Buelah | Buena | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,363 | 987 |
| Most in one year | 58 | 34 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 170 | 130 |
| Median age today | 82 | 79 |
| Peak year | 1927 | 1917 |
| Best rank | 1,000th girls | 1,241st girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1889 | 1882 |
| Girls / boys | 1,363 / 0 | 987 / 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 Buelahs alive today are over 82; half the Buenas are over 79. That is 3 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: Buelah and Buena.