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Fionn vs Fiorella

American parents have registered 1,639 Fiorellas since 1880, against 682 Fionns. Fiorella is still ahead, with 90 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Fionn Fiorella

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 44 years in which either name was published, Fiorella for 43 years and Fionn for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Fionn Fiorella
Total US births 6821,639
Most in one year 4090
Babies in 2025 2590
Estimated living today 6801,600
Median age today 1113
Peak year 20182025
Best rank 2,943rd boys2,076th girls
Rank in 2025 4,139th2,076th
First recorded 19731974
Girls / boys 0 / 6821,639 / 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 Fiorellas alive today are over 13; half the Fionns are over 11. 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 Fionn Fiorella
Ireland 7,0586
England and Wales 1,070133
France 5470
Switzerland 28933

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: Fionn and Fiorella.