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Solanch vs Solomon

American parents have registered 38,080 Solomons since 1880, against 28 Solanches. Solomon is still ahead, with 767 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Solanch against Solomon, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Solanch Solomon

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

Solomon has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2010, when Solanch had 17 and Solomon had 566.

Side by side

  Solanch Solomon
Total US births 2838,080
Most in one year 17907
Babies in 2025 under 5767
Estimated living today 3028,000
Median age today 1519
Peak year 20102016
Best rank 7,217th girls367th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked422nd
First recorded 20101880
Girls / boys 28 / 011 / 38,069

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 Solomons alive today are over 19; half the Solanches are over 15. That is 4 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: Solanch and Solomon.