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Falon vs Falynn

American parents have registered 2,066 Falons since 1880, against 733 Falynns. But in 2025 it was Falynn that was commoner, 23 babies to 7.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Falon against Falynn, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Falon 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, Falon for 33 years and Falynn for 12 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Falon Falynn
Total US births 2,066733
Most in one year 18250
Babies in 2025 723
Estimated living today 2,000730
Median age today 3412
Peak year 19832013
Best rank 842nd girls3,218th girls
Rank in 2025 11,932nd5,410th
First recorded 19811981
Girls / boys 1,983 / 83733 / 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 Falons alive today are over 34; half the Falynns are over 12. That is 22 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: Falon and Falynn.