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Sergio vs Servando

American parents have registered 82,233 Sergios since 1880, against 2,203 Servandos. Sergio is still ahead, with 714 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Sergio Servando

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

Sergio has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1913 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1919, when Sergio had 5 and Servando had 5.

Side by side

  Sergio Servando
Total US births 82,2332,203
Most in one year 2,26159
Babies in 2025 71417
Estimated living today 78,0001,800
Median age today 2830
Peak year 19952007
Best rank 158th boys2,235th boys
Rank in 2025 441st5,399th
First recorded 19131918
Girls / boys 355 / 81,8780 / 2,203

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 Servandos alive today are over 30; half the Sergios are over 28. That is 2 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: Sergio and Servando.