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Infantof vs Infinity

American parents have registered 1,049 Infinitys since 1880, against 124 Infantofs. Infinity is still ahead, with 34 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Infantof Infinity

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 35 years in which either name was published, Infinity for 32 years and Infantof for 3 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Infantof Infinity
Total US births 1241,049
Most in one year 5671
Babies in 2025 under 534
Estimated living today 1201,000
Median age today 3317
Peak year 19921997
Best rank 3,218th girls2,002nd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked4,661st
First recorded 19911993
Girls / boys 67 / 571,029 / 20

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 Infantofs alive today are over 33; half the Infinitys are over 17. That is 16 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.

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