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Satchel vs Satori

American parents have registered 568 Satoris since 1880, against 548 Satchels. Satori is still ahead, with 37 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Satchel Satori

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, Satchel for 20 years and Satori for 18 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Satchel Satori
Total US births 548568
Most in one year 4047
Babies in 2025 under 537
Estimated living today 540560
Median age today 2412
Peak year 19982024
Best rank 2,235th boys4,207th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked4,987th
First recorded 19881988
Girls / boys 0 / 548510 / 58

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 Satoris are over 12. That is 12 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: Satchel and Satori.