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Tiofilo vs Tionna

American parents have registered 2,595 Tionnas since 1880, against 51 Tiofilos. Tionna is still ahead, with 11 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tiofilo against Tionna, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tiofilo Tionna

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 61 years in which either name was published, Tionna for 53 years and Tiofilo for 8 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Tiofilo Tionna
Total US births 512,595
Most in one year 11169
Babies in 2025 under 511
Estimated living today 92,600
Median age today 7824
Peak year 19302000
Best rank 2,444th boys1,182nd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked8,860th
First recorded 19261972
Girls / boys 0 / 512,595 / 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 Tiofilos alive today are over 78; half the Tionnas are over 24. That is 54 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: Tiofilo and Tionna.