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Falisha vs Fallyn

American parents have registered 1,577 Fallyns since 1880, against 910 Falishas. Fallyn is still ahead, with 33 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Falisha against Fallyn, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Falisha Fallyn

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 58 years in which either name was published, Fallyn for 33 years and Falisha for 25 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Falisha Fallyn
Total US births 9101,577
Most in one year 5384
Babies in 2025 under 533
Estimated living today 8801,600
Median age today 3713
Peak year 19852015
Best rank 2,021st girls2,236th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked4,265th
First recorded 19661981
Girls / boys 910 / 01,577 / 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 Falishas alive today are over 37; half the Fallyns are over 13. That is 24 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Falisha Fallyn
England and Wales 6210

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Falisha and Fallyn.