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Florine vs Floy

American parents have registered 11,259 Florines since 1880, against 6,935 Floys. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Florine Floy

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 105 years in which either name was published, Florine for 76 years and Floy for 29 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Florine Floy
Total US births 11,2596,935
Most in one year 398241
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 2,500750
Median age today 7781
Peak year 19211918
Best rank 329th girls441st girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18831880
Girls / boys 11,254 / 56,612 / 323

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 Floys alive today are over 81; half the Florines are over 77. That is 4 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.

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