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Guinevere vs Guiseppe

American parents have registered 4,592 Guineveres since 1880, against 575 Guiseppes. Guinevere is still ahead, with 295 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Guinevere against Guiseppe, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Guinevere Guiseppe

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 102 years in which either name was published, Guinevere for 94 years and Guiseppe for 8 years. The lead changed hands 11 times.

Side by side

  Guinevere Guiseppe
Total US births 4,592575
Most in one year 29924
Babies in 2025 295under 5
Estimated living today 4,200390
Median age today 835
Peak year 20221990
Best rank 917th girls2,695th boys
Rank in 2025 898thunranked
First recorded 19121911
Girls / boys 4,592 / 00 / 575

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 Guiseppes alive today are over 35; half the Guineveres are over 8. That is 27 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 Guinevere Guiseppe
England and Wales 14415

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: Guinevere and Guiseppe.