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Froilan vs Fronie

American parents have registered 789 Fronies since 1880, against 525 Froilans. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Froilan against Fronie, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Froilan Fronie

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 122 years in which either name was published, Fronie for 66 years and Froilan for 56 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Froilan Fronie
Total US births 525789
Most in one year 1824
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 50050
Median age today 2981
Peak year 19801918
Best rank 2,617th boys1,645th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19391880
Girls / boys 0 / 525789 / 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 Fronies alive today are over 81; half the Froilans are over 29. That is 52 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 Fronie.