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Mordechai vs Morelia

American parents have registered 6,821 Mordechais since 1880, against 756 Morelias. Mordechai is still ahead, with 238 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Mordechai Morelia

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

Mordechai has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1950 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1996, when Mordechai had 89 and Morelia had 66.

Side by side

  Mordechai Morelia
Total US births 6,821756
Most in one year 31566
Babies in 2025 2385
Estimated living today 6,700750
Median age today 1421
Peak year 20181996
Best rank 748th boys2,084th girls
Rank in 2025 965th14,942nd
First recorded 19501995
Girls / boys 0 / 6,821756 / 0

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 Morelias alive today are over 21; half the Mordechais are over 14. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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: Mordechai and Morelia.