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Luisa vs Luisalfredo

American parents have registered 14,405 Luisas since 1880, against 22 Luisalfredos. Luisa is still ahead, with 294 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Luisa Luisalfredo

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

Luisa has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1882 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1986, when Luisa had 124 and Luisalfredo had 14.

Side by side

  Luisa Luisalfredo
Total US births 14,40522
Most in one year 31914
Babies in 2025 294under 5
Estimated living today 12,00020
Median age today 2639
Peak year 20221986
Best rank 869th girls3,268th boys
Rank in 2025 902ndunranked
First recorded 18821986
Girls / boys 14,372 / 330 / 22

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 Luisalfredos alive today are over 39; half the Luisas are over 26. That is 13 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: Luisa and Luisalfredo.