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Faithlynn vs Faiza

American parents have registered 1,059 Faizas since 1880, against 582 Faithlynns. Faiza is still ahead, with 35 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Faithlynn against Faiza, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Faithlynn Faiza

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 49 years in which either name was published, Faiza for 45 years and Faithlynn for 4 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Faithlynn Faiza
Total US births 5821,059
Most in one year 6343
Babies in 2025 2035
Estimated living today 5801,000
Median age today 1016
Peak year 20142017
Best rank 2,739th girls3,552nd girls
Rank in 2025 5,917th4,067th
First recorded 19991973
Girls / boys 582 / 01,059 / 0

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 Faizas alive today are over 16; half the Faithlynns are over 10. That is 6 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: Faithlynn and Faiza.