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Rayfield vs Raymundo

American parents have registered 9,493 Raymundos since 1880, against 1,874 Rayfields. Raymundo is still ahead, with 55 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Rayfield 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

Of the 128 years in which either name was published, Raymundo for 101 years and Rayfield for 27 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Rayfield Raymundo
Total US births 1,8749,493
Most in one year 43235
Babies in 2025 under 555
Estimated living today 7907,900
Median age today 6531
Peak year 19491994
Best rank 1,072nd boys674th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked2,451st
First recorded 18961912
Girls / boys 0 / 1,8740 / 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 Rayfields alive today are over 65; half the Raymundos are over 31. That is 34 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: Rayfield and Raymundo.