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Falisha vs Falynn

American parents have registered 910 Falishas since 1880, against 733 Falynns. But in 2025 it was Falynn that was commoner, 23 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Falisha against Falynn, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Falisha Falynn

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, Falisha for 37 years and Falynn for 21 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Falisha Falynn
Total US births 910733
Most in one year 5350
Babies in 2025 under 523
Estimated living today 880730
Median age today 3712
Peak year 19852013
Best rank 2,021st girls3,218th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked5,410th
First recorded 19661981
Girls / boys 910 / 0733 / 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 Falynns are over 12. That is 25 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: Falisha and Falynn.