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Rinda vs Rinoa

American parents have registered 856 Rindas since 1880, against 560 Rinoas. But in 2025 it was Rinoa that was commoner, 26 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rinda against Rinoa, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rinda Rinoa

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 90 years in which either name was published, Rinda for 64 years and Rinoa for 26 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Rinda Rinoa
Total US births 856560
Most in one year 3543
Babies in 2025 under 526
Estimated living today 590560
Median age today 679
Peak year 19572017
Best rank 1,842nd girls3,552nd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked4,987th
First recorded 18822000
Girls / boys 856 / 0560 / 0

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 Rindas alive today are over 67; half the Rinoas are over 9. That is 58 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: Rinda and Rinoa.