Park vs Parthenia

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Park Parthenia

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 142 years in which either name was published, Park for 77 years and Parthenia for 65 years. The lead changed hands 39 times.

• 1882–1888 Parthenia ahead, apart from one short spell
• 1889–1895 Park ahead, apart from one short spell
• 1896–1911 Parthenia ahead, apart from one short spell
• 1912–1927 Park ahead, apart from 2 short spells
• 1928–1959 Parthenia ahead, apart from 4 short spells
• 1960–1964 Park ahead
• 1965–1978 Parthenia ahead, apart from one short spell
• 1979–2022 Park ahead, apart from 2 short spells
• 2023–2025 Parthenia ahead

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

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 Parthenias alive today are over 66; half the Parks are over 44. That is 22 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Park Pennsylvania (16.5×)
• Parthenia North Carolina (22.1×)

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

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