Guilford vs Guinevere
American parents have registered 4,592 Guineveres since 1880, against 589 Guilfords. Guinevere is still ahead, with 295 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Guilford Guinevere
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 113 years in which either name was published, Guinevere for 72 years and Guilford for 41 years. The lead changed hands 15 times.
- 1885–1912 Guilford ahead
- 1915–1917 Guinevere ahead
- 1928–1932 Guilford ahead
- 1933–1935 Guinevere ahead
- 1936–1961 Guilford ahead
- 1966–2025 Guinevere ahead
10 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Guilford | Guinevere | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 589 | 4,592 |
| Most in one year | 22 | 299 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 295 |
| Estimated living today | 120 | 4,200 |
| Median age today | 75 | 8 |
| Peak year | 1923 | 2022 |
| Best rank | 1,644th boys | 917th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 898th |
| First recorded | 1885 | 1912 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 589 | 4,592 / 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 Guineveres are over 8. That is 67 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 Guinevere.