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Flannery vs Flavia

American parents have registered 1,843 Flavias since 1880, against 580 Flannerys. Flavia is still ahead, with 13 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Flannery against Flavia, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Flannery Flavia

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 138 years in which either name was published, Flavia for 117 years and Flannery for 21 years. The lead changed hands 14 times.

9 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Flannery Flavia
Total US births 5801,843
Most in one year 2339
Babies in 2025 613
Estimated living today 5701,000
Median age today 2338
Peak year 20061921
Best rank 5,709th girls1,237th girls
Rank in 2025 13,208th7,885th
First recorded 19801881
Girls / boys 580 / 01,843 / 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 Flavias alive today are over 38; half the Flannerys are over 23. That is 15 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Flannery and Flavia.