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Swade vs Swayze

American parents have registered 1,202 Swayzes since 1880, against 194 Swades. Swayze is still ahead, with 124 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Swade against Swayze, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Swade Swayze

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 28 years in which either name was published, Swayze for 21 years and Swade for 7 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Swade Swayze
Total US births 1941,202
Most in one year 26124
Babies in 2025 26124
Estimated living today 1901,200
Median age today 56
Peak year 20252024
Best rank 4,050th boys2,011th girls
Rank in 2025 4,050th2,036th
First recorded 19931989
Girls / boys 0 / 194948 / 254

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.

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