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Cira vs Cirildo

American parents have registered 591 Ciras since 1880, against 20 Cirildos. Cira is still ahead, with 6 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cira against Cirildo, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cira Cirildo

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 66 years in which either name was published, Cira for 63 years and Cirildo for 3 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Cira Cirildo
Total US births 59120
Most in one year 269
Babies in 2025 6under 5
Estimated living today 54013
Median age today 2576
Peak year 20061947
Best rank 5,233rd girls2,671st boys
Rank in 2025 13,208thunranked
First recorded 19151947
Girls / boys 591 / 00 / 20

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 Cirildos alive today are over 76; half the Ciras are over 25. That is 51 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: Cira and Cirildo.