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Fallyn vs Falynn

American parents have registered 1,577 Fallyns since 1880, against 733 Falynns. Fallyn is still ahead, with 33 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Fallyn 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 45 years in which either name was published, Fallyn for 43 years and Falynn for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Fallyn Falynn
Total US births 1,577733
Most in one year 8450
Babies in 2025 3323
Estimated living today 1,600730
Median age today 1312
Peak year 20152013
Best rank 2,236th girls3,218th girls
Rank in 2025 4,265th5,410th
First recorded 19811981
Girls / boys 1,577 / 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.

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: Fallyn and Falynn.