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Raymundo vs Raysean

American parents have registered 9,493 Raymundos since 1880, against 538 Rayseans. Raymundo is still ahead, with 55 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Raymundo Raysean

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 2014, when Raymundo had 48 and Raysean had 13.

Side by side

  Raymundo Raysean
Total US births 9,493538
Most in one year 23529
Babies in 2025 55under 5
Estimated living today 7,900530
Median age today 3122
Peak year 19942004
Best rank 674th boys3,285th boys
Rank in 2025 2,451stunranked
First recorded 19121972
Girls / boys 0 / 9,4930 / 538

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 Rayseans are over 22. That is 9 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: Raymundo and Raysean.