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Senora vs Sentell

American parents have registered 1,065 Senoras since 1880, against 39 Sentells. Senora is still ahead, with 5 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Senora against Sentell, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Senora Sentell

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 110 years in which either name was published, Senora for 106 years and Sentell for 4 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Senora Sentell
Total US births 1,06539
Most in one year 2317
Babies in 2025 5under 5
Estimated living today 60040
Median age today 5745
Peak year 19231979
Best rank 1,782nd girls2,669th boys
Rank in 2025 14,942ndunranked
First recorded 18811979
Girls / boys 1,065 / 00 / 39

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 Senoras alive today are over 57; half the Sentells are over 45. 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: Senora and Sentell.