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Cricket vs Cristina

American parents have registered 52,698 Cristinas since 1880, against 641 Crickets. Cristina is still ahead, with 128 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cricket against Cristina, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cricket Cristina

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

Cristina has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1906 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1962, when Cricket had 23 and Cristina had 189.

Side by side

  Cricket Cristina
Total US births 64152,698
Most in one year 241,781
Babies in 2025 11128
Estimated living today 61050,000
Median age today 3837
Peak year 19821990
Best rank 3,418th girls165th girls
Rank in 2025 8,860th1,622nd
First recorded 19501906
Girls / boys 641 / 052,428 / 270

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.

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