Lysander vs Lysandra

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Lysander Lysandra

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 65 years in which either name was published, Lysandra for 39 years and Lysander for 26 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

• 1931 Lysander ahead
• 1947 Lysandra ahead
• 1955–1963 Lysander ahead
• 1964–2001 Lysandra ahead
• 2002–2003 Lysander ahead
• 2004–2005 Lysandra ahead
• 2006–2025 Lysander ahead

Side by side

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 Lysandras alive today are over 33; half the Lysanders are over 10. That is 23 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

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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