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Shubhdeep vs Shunda

American parents have registered 537 Shundas since 1880, against 30 Shubhdeeps. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Shubhdeep against Shunda, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Shubhdeep Shunda

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 27 years in which either name was published, Shunda for 25 years and Shubhdeep for 2 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Shubhdeep Shunda
Total US births 30537
Most in one year 1951
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 30500
Median age today 251
Peak year 20231969
Best rank 5,075th boys1,685th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 20231962
Girls / boys 0 / 30537 / 0

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 Shundas alive today are over 51; half the Shubhdeeps are over 2. That is 49 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: Shubhdeep and Shunda.