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Rhyder vs Rhyzen

American parents have registered 1,375 Rhyders since 1880, against 50 Rhyzens. Rhyder is still ahead, with 41 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rhyder against Rhyzen, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rhyder Rhyzen

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

Rhyder has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 2002 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Rhyder had 41 and Rhyzen had 16.

Side by side

  Rhyder Rhyzen
Total US births 1,37550
Most in one year 10918
Babies in 2025 4116
Estimated living today 1,40050
Median age today 101
Peak year 20132023
Best rank 1,578th boys5,255th boys
Rank in 2025 3,240th5,608th
First recorded 20022023
Girls / boys 155 / 1,2200 / 50

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 Rhyders alive today are over 10; half the Rhyzens are over 1. 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: Rhyder and Rhyzen.