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Guillaume vs Guillermina

American parents have registered 1,925 Guillerminas since 1880, against 342 Guillaumes. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Guillaume 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 100 years in which either name was published, Guillermina for 95 years and Guillaume for 5 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Guillaume Guillermina
Total US births 3421,925
Most in one year 1940
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 3301,600
Median age today 2949
Peak year 19971966
Best rank 3,601st boys1,796th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19671918
Girls / boys 0 / 3421,925 / 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 Guillaumes are over 29. That is 20 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Guillaume Guillermina
France 222,9805

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: Guillaume and Guillermina.