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Ovidio vs Ovie

American parents have registered 1,082 Ovidios since 1880, against 854 Ovies. Ovidio is still ahead, with 24 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ovidio against Ovie, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ovidio Ovie

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 128 years in which either name was published, Ovidio for 77 years and Ovie for 51 years. The lead changed hands 17 times.

12 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Ovidio Ovie
Total US births 1,082854
Most in one year 3933
Babies in 2025 249
Estimated living today 900190
Median age today 3511
Peak year 20242023
Best rank 3,104th boys4,610th boys
Rank in 2025 4,249th8,243rd
First recorded 19201884
Girls / boys 0 / 1,082365 / 489

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 Ovidios alive today are over 35; half the Ovies are over 11. That is 24 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: Ovidio and Ovie.