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Raymundo vs Rayshon

American parents have registered 9,493 Raymundos since 1880, against 806 Rayshons. Raymundo is still ahead, with 55 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Raymundo Rayshon

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 2019, when Raymundo had 57 and Rayshon had 13.

Side by side

  Raymundo Rayshon
Total US births 9,493806
Most in one year 23533
Babies in 2025 555
Estimated living today 7,900780
Median age today 3127
Peak year 19941995
Best rank 674th boys2,346th boys
Rank in 2025 2,451st12,008th
First recorded 19121971
Girls / boys 0 / 9,4930 / 806

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 Rayshons are over 27. That is 4 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 Rayshon.