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Florida vs Florine

American parents have registered 11,259 Florines since 1880, against 3,532 Floridas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Florida against Florine, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Florida Florine

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 109 years in which either name was published, Florine for 86 years and Florida for 23 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Florida Florine
Total US births 3,53211,259
Most in one year 99398
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 6902,500
Median age today 7677
Peak year 19251921
Best rank 743rd girls329th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18801883
Girls / boys 3,527 / 511,254 / 5

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.

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 Florida Florine
France 44513,250

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: Florida and Florine.