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Massimo vs Maston

American parents have registered 4,026 Massimos since 1880, against 241 Mastons. Massimo is still ahead, with 251 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Massimo Maston

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 80 years in which either name was published, Massimo for 59 years and Maston for 21 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Massimo Maston
Total US births 4,026241
Most in one year 28913
Babies in 2025 2516
Estimated living today 4,000110
Median age today 1116
Peak year 20231922
Best rank 843rd boys2,347th boys
Rank in 2025 935th10,695th
First recorded 19631906
Girls / boys 0 / 4,0260 / 241

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 Mastons alive today are over 16; half the Massimos are over 11. That is 5 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: Massimo and Maston.