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Guilford vs Guiliana

American parents have registered 589 Guilfords since 1880, against 528 Guilianas. But in 2025 it was Guiliana that was commoner, 6 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Guilford against Guiliana, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Guilford Guiliana

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 79 years in which either name was published, Guilford for 53 years and Guiliana for 26 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Guilford Guiliana
Total US births 589528
Most in one year 2264
Babies in 2025 under 56
Estimated living today 120520
Median age today 7514
Peak year 19232010
Best rank 1,644th boys2,752nd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked13,208th
First recorded 18851993
Girls / boys 0 / 589528 / 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 Guilfords alive today are over 75; half the Guilianas are over 14. That is 61 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: Guilford and Guiliana.