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Edilberto vs Edith

American parents have registered 271,705 Ediths since 1880, against 761 Edilbertos. Edith is still ahead, with 595 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Edilberto against Edith, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Edilberto Edith

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

Edith has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1993, when Edilberto had 25 and Edith had 412.

Side by side

  Edilberto Edith
Total US births 761271,705
Most in one year 257,877
Babies in 2025 under 5595
Estimated living today 72066,000
Median age today 3166
Peak year 19921918
Best rank 2,747th boys30th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked499th
First recorded 19571880
Girls / boys 0 / 761270,880 / 825

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 Ediths alive today are over 66; half the Edilbertos are over 31. That is 35 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: Edilberto and Edith.