Monroe vs Montavious
American parents have registered 24,360 Monroes since 1880, against 1,002 Montaviouses. Monroe is still ahead, with 815 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Monroe Montavious
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 146 years in which either name was published, Monroe for 140 years and Montavious for 6 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.
- 1880–1991 Monroe ahead
- 1992–1993 Montavious ahead
- 1994–1997 Monroe ahead
- 1998 Montavious ahead
- 1999 Monroe ahead
- 2000–2001 Montavious ahead
- 2002 Monroe ahead
- 2003 Montavious ahead
- 2004–2025 Monroe ahead
Side by side
| Monroe | Montavious | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 24,360 | 1,002 |
| Most in one year | 815 | 46 |
| Babies in 2025 | 815 | 10 |
| Estimated living today | 13,000 | 980 |
| Median age today | 9 | 23 |
| Peak year | 1921 | 2000 |
| Best rank | 289th boys | 2,175th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 1,260th | 7,679th |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1980 |
| Girls / boys | 7,266 / 17,094 | 0 / 1,002 |
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 Montaviouses alive today are over 23; half the Monroes are over 9. That is 14 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Monroe Mississippi (4.1×), Arkansas (2.7×), South Carolina (2.7×)
- Montavious Georgia (26.4×), Mississippi (7.6×), Tennessee (4.2×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Monroe and Montavious.