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Larrie vs Larue

American parents have registered 5,520 Larues since 1880, against 1,268 Larries. Larue is still ahead, with 8 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Larrie against Larue, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Larrie Larue

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 122 years in which either name was published, Larue for 115 years and Larrie for 7 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.

8 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Larrie Larue
Total US births 1,2685,520
Most in one year 58185
Babies in 2025 under 58
Estimated living today 7201,700
Median age today 7071
Peak year 19431920
Best rank 1,018th boys590th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked10,917th
First recorded 19171893
Girls / boys 339 / 9293,980 / 1,540

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.

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