Newborn vs Newton

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Newborn Newton

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

Newton has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1987, when Newborn had 16 and Newton had 20.

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 Newtons alive today are over 55; half the Newborns are over 38. That is 17 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Newborn New York (12.8×)
• Newton Louisiana (4.0×), Georgia (2.9×), Tennessee (2.4×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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