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Petros vs Pettus

American parents have registered 715 Petroses since 1880, against 6 Pettuses. Petros is still ahead, with 9 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Petros against Pettus, 1880 to 2025 0 5 10 15 20 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Petros Pettus

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 59 years in which either name was published, Petros for 58 years and Pettus for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Petros Pettus
Total US births 7156
Most in one year 206
Babies in 2025 9under 5
Estimated living today 6901
Median age today 2791
Peak year 20071934
Best rank 4,640th boys3,277th boys
Rank in 2025 8,243rdunranked
First recorded 19641934
Girls / boys 0 / 7150 / 6

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 Pettuses alive today are over 91; half the Petroses are over 27. That is 64 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Petros and Pettus.