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Rayla vs Raymundo

American parents have registered 9,493 Raymundos since 1880, against 1,590 Raylas. But in 2025 it was Rayla that was commoner, 135 babies to 55.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Rayla 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 114 years in which either name was published, Raymundo for 107 years and Rayla for 7 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Rayla Raymundo
Total US births 1,5909,493
Most in one year 135235
Babies in 2025 13555
Estimated living today 1,6007,900
Median age today 731
Peak year 20251994
Best rank 1,561st girls674th boys
Rank in 2025 1,561st2,451st
First recorded 19551912
Girls / boys 1,590 / 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 Raymundos alive today are over 31; half the Raylas are over 7. 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: Rayla and Raymundo.