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Feliciana vs Felipe

American parents have registered 31,958 Felipes since 1880, against 588 Felicianas. Felipe is still ahead, with 244 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Feliciana against Felipe, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Feliciana Felipe

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

Felipe has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1904, when Feliciana had 5 and Felipe had 6.

Side by side

  Feliciana Felipe
Total US births 58831,958
Most in one year 17606
Babies in 2025 10244
Estimated living today 40026,000
Median age today 2931
Peak year 19272001
Best rank 2,169th girls417th boys
Rank in 2025 9,457th955th
First recorded 19041880
Girls / boys 588 / 0133 / 31,825

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 Felipes alive today are over 31; half the Felicianas are over 29. That is 2 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 Feliciana Felipe
France 25925

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: Feliciana and Felipe.