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Eason vs Eastin

American parents have registered 2,849 Easons since 1880, against 551 Eastins. Eason is still ahead, with 112 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Eason Eastin

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

Eason has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1918 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2000, when Eason had 10 and Eastin had 8.

Side by side

  Eason Eastin
Total US births 2,849551
Most in one year 23846
Babies in 2025 11220
Estimated living today 2,800550
Median age today 811
Peak year 20162014
Best rank 904th boys2,622nd boys
Rank in 2025 1,539th4,857th
First recorded 19181994
Girls / boys 0 / 2,84910 / 541

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 Eastins alive today are over 11; half the Easons are over 8. That is 3 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: Eason and Eastin.