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Froilan vs Fronia

American parents have registered 543 Fronias since 1880, against 525 Froilans. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Froilan against Fronia, 1880 to 2025 0 5 10 15 20 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Froilan Fronia

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 116 years in which either name was published, Fronia for 61 years and Froilan for 55 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Froilan Fronia
Total US births 525543
Most in one year 1816
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 50040
Median age today 2986
Peak year 19801918
Best rank 2,617th boys2,209th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19391881
Girls / boys 0 / 525543 / 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 Fronias alive today are over 86; half the Froilans are over 29. That is 57 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: Froilan and Fronia.