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Gilberto vs Gilmore

American parents have registered 28,700 Gilbertos since 1880, against 753 Gilmores. Gilberto is still ahead, with 114 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Gilberto Gilmore

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 121 years in which either name was published, Gilberto for 119 years and Gilmore for 2 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Gilberto Gilmore
Total US births 28,700753
Most in one year 55932
Babies in 2025 114under 5
Estimated living today 24,000150
Median age today 3573
Peak year 19931914
Best rank 416th boys986th boys
Rank in 2025 1,520thunranked
First recorded 19031902
Girls / boys 58 / 28,6420 / 753

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 Gilmores alive today are over 73; half the Gilbertos are over 35. That is 38 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: Gilberto and Gilmore.