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Rayetta vs Raymundo

American parents have registered 9,493 Raymundos since 1880, against 666 Rayettas. Raymundo is still ahead, with 55 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rayetta against Raymundo, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rayetta Raymundo

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

Raymundo has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1912 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1949, when Rayetta had 23 and Raymundo had 49.

Side by side

  Rayetta Raymundo
Total US births 6669,493
Most in one year 25235
Babies in 2025 under 555
Estimated living today 4607,900
Median age today 6731
Peak year 19471994
Best rank 1,946th girls674th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked2,451st
First recorded 19201912
Girls / boys 666 / 00 / 9,493

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 Rayettas alive today are over 67; half the Raymundos are over 31. That is 36 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: Rayetta and Raymundo.