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Eason vs Easten

American parents have registered 2,849 Easons since 1880, against 640 Eastens. Eason is still ahead, with 112 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Eason against Easten, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Eason Easten

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 43 years in which either name was published, Eason for 42 years and Easten for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Eason Easten
Total US births 2,849640
Most in one year 23860
Babies in 2025 11224
Estimated living today 2,800630
Median age today 810
Peak year 20162017
Best rank 904th boys2,217th boys
Rank in 2025 1,539th4,249th
First recorded 19181997
Girls / boys 0 / 2,8490 / 640

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 Eastens alive today are over 10; half the Easons are over 8. That is 2 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: Eason and Easten.