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Easter vs Eastin

American parents have registered 5,579 Easters since 1880, against 551 Eastins. But in 2025 it was Eastin that was commoner, 20 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Easter against Eastin, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Easter 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

Of the 144 years in which either name was published, Easter for 119 years and Eastin for 25 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Easter Eastin
Total US births 5,579551
Most in one year 13346
Babies in 2025 under 520
Estimated living today 1,600550
Median age today 7011
Peak year 19252014
Best rank 635th girls2,622nd boys
Rank in 2025 unranked4,857th
First recorded 18801994
Girls / boys 5,513 / 6610 / 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 Easters alive today are over 70; half the Eastins are over 11. That is 59 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: Easter and Eastin.