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Guilherme vs Guillermina

American parents have registered 1,925 Guillerminas since 1880, against 522 Guilhermes. But in 2025 it was Guilherme that was commoner, 8 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Guilherme Guillermina

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 105 years in which either name was published, Guillermina for 80 years and Guilherme for 25 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Guilherme Guillermina
Total US births 5221,925
Most in one year 3940
Babies in 2025 8under 5
Estimated living today 5101,600
Median age today 1849
Peak year 20061966
Best rank 2,881st boys1,796th girls
Rank in 2025 8,910thunranked
First recorded 19211918
Girls / boys 0 / 5221,925 / 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 Guillerminas alive today are over 49; half the Guilhermes are over 18. That is 31 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Guilherme Guillermina
France 4355

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Guilherme and Guillermina.