Estephany vs Esther

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Estephany Esther

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

Esther 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 2002, when Estephany had 45 and Esther had 1,059.

Side by side

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 Esthers alive today are over 39; half the Estephanys are over 22. That is 17 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Estephany California (5.5×), Texas (4.3×), New York (0.9×)
• Esther North Dakota (3.0×), South Dakota (2.2×), New York (1.7×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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