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Fleet vs Fleeta

American parents have registered 728 Fleetas since 1880, against 166 Fleets. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Fleet against Fleeta, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Fleet Fleeta

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 73 years in which either name was published, Fleeta for 67 years and Fleet for 6 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Fleet Fleeta
Total US births 166728
Most in one year 1127
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 40140
Median age today 7378
Peak year 19301921
Best rank 2,444th boys1,625th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18851884
Girls / boys 0 / 166728 / 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 Fleetas alive today are over 78; half the Fleets are over 73. That is 5 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: Fleet and Fleeta.