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Gilberto vs Gildardo

American parents have registered 28,700 Gilbertos since 1880, against 1,111 Gildardos. Gilberto is still ahead, with 114 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Gilberto against Gildardo, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Gilberto Gildardo

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

Gilberto has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1903 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Gilberto had 127 and Gildardo had 12.

Side by side

  Gilberto Gildardo
Total US births 28,7001,111
Most in one year 55934
Babies in 2025 1145
Estimated living today 24,0001,000
Median age today 3530
Peak year 19931998
Best rank 416th boys2,507th boys
Rank in 2025 1,520th12,008th
First recorded 19031927
Girls / boys 58 / 28,6420 / 1,111

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 Gilbertos alive today are over 35; half the Gildardos are over 30. That is 5 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: Gilberto and Gildardo.