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Cutina vs Cutter

American parents have registered 1,682 Cutters since 1880, against 52 Cutinas. Cutter is still ahead, with 48 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cutina against Cutter, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cutina Cutter

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 45 years in which either name was published, Cutter for 42 years and Cutina for 3 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Cutina Cutter
Total US births 521,682
Most in one year 3277
Babies in 2025 under 548
Estimated living today 501,700
Median age today 5318
Peak year 19722003
Best rank 2,311th girls1,630th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked2,676th
First recorded 19721983
Girls / boys 52 / 00 / 1,682

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 Cutinas alive today are over 53; half the Cutters are over 18. That is 35 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: Cutina and Cutter.