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Fronia vs Froylan

American parents have registered 661 Froylans since 1880, against 543 Fronias. Froylan is still ahead, with 5 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Fronia against Froylan, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Fronia Froylan

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, Fronia for 61 years and Froylan for 48 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Fronia Froylan
Total US births 543661
Most in one year 1637
Babies in 2025 under 55
Estimated living today 40640
Median age today 8622
Peak year 19182007
Best rank 2,209th girls3,090th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked12,008th
First recorded 18811950
Girls / boys 543 / 00 / 661

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 Froylans are over 22. That is 64 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: Fronia and Froylan.