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Larissa vs Larrey

American parents have registered 23,498 Larissas since 1880, against 7 Larreys. Larissa is still ahead, with 126 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Larissa against Larrey, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Larissa Larrey

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

Larissa has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1946 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1953, when Larissa had 9 and Larrey had 7.

Side by side

  Larissa Larrey
Total US births 23,4987
Most in one year 7157
Babies in 2025 126under 5
Estimated living today 23,0005
Median age today 3172
Peak year 19941953
Best rank 363rd girls3,143rd boys
Rank in 2025 1,643rdunranked
First recorded 19461953
Girls / boys 23,498 / 00 / 7

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 Larreys alive today are over 72; half the Larissas are over 31. That is 41 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: Larissa and Larrey.