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Satchel vs Sathvik

American parents have registered 611 Sathviks since 1880, against 548 Satchels. Sathvik is still ahead, with 10 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Satchel against Sathvik, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Satchel Sathvik

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 38 years in which either name was published, Sathvik for 20 years and Satchel for 18 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Satchel Sathvik
Total US births 548611
Most in one year 4037
Babies in 2025 under 510
Estimated living today 540610
Median age today 2413
Peak year 19982007
Best rank 2,235th boys3,090th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked7,679th
First recorded 19881998
Girls / boys 0 / 5480 / 611

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 Satchels alive today are over 24; half the Sathviks are over 13. That is 11 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: Satchel and Sathvik.