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Seretha vs Sergio

American parents have registered 82,233 Sergios since 1880, against 518 Serethas. Sergio is still ahead, with 714 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Seretha against Sergio, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Seretha Sergio

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 113 years in which either name was published, Sergio for 112 years and Seretha for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Seretha Sergio
Total US births 51882,233
Most in one year 152,261
Babies in 2025 under 5714
Estimated living today 34078,000
Median age today 6028
Peak year 19591995
Best rank 3,104th girls158th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked441st
First recorded 19151913
Girls / boys 518 / 0355 / 81,878

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 Serethas alive today are over 60; half the Sergios are over 28. That is 32 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: Seretha and Sergio.