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Eastin vs Eastyn

American parents have registered 1,896 Eastyns since 1880, against 551 Eastins. Eastyn is still ahead, with 93 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Eastin Eastyn

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 28 years in which either name was published, Eastyn for 21 years and Eastin for 7 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Eastin Eastyn
Total US births 5511,896
Most in one year 46135
Babies in 2025 2093
Estimated living today 5501,900
Median age today 118
Peak year 20142021
Best rank 2,622nd boys1,841st boys
Rank in 2025 4,857th2,183rd
First recorded 19942001
Girls / boys 10 / 541757 / 1,139

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 Eastyns 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: Eastin and Eastyn.