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Staci vs Stavros

American parents have registered 25,539 Stacis since 1880, against 1,036 Stavroses. But in 2025 it was Stavros that was commoner, 17 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Staci against Stavros, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Staci Stavros

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 75 years in which either name was published, Staci for 61 years and Stavros for 14 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Staci Stavros
Total US births 25,5391,036
Most in one year 1,18435
Babies in 2025 under 517
Estimated living today 24,0001,000
Median age today 4823
Peak year 19712007
Best rank 250th girls3,188th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked5,399th
First recorded 19501966
Girls / boys 25,480 / 590 / 1,036

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 Stacis alive today are over 48; half the Stavroses are over 23. That is 25 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Staci Stavros
England and Wales 1375
France 2010

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Staci and Stavros.