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Soraida vs Sorin

American parents have registered 567 Sorins since 1880, against 542 Soraidas. Sorin is still ahead, with 57 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Soraida Sorin

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 69 years in which either name was published, Soraida for 49 years and Sorin for 20 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Soraida Sorin
Total US births 542567
Most in one year 2557
Babies in 2025 under 557
Estimated living today 510560
Median age today 445
Peak year 19812025
Best rank 3,340th girls2,390th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked2,390th
First recorded 19522000
Girls / boys 542 / 020 / 547

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 Soraidas alive today are over 44; half the Sorins are over 5. That is 39 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: Soraida and Sorin.