Bascom vs Basilio
American parents have registered 1,809 Basilios since 1880, against 731 Bascoms. Basilio is still ahead, with 10 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Bascom Basilio
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 132 years in which either name was published, Basilio for 96 years and Bascom for 36 years. The lead changed hands 15 times.
- 1882–1930 Bascom ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1931–2025 Basilio ahead, apart from one short spell
11 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Bascom | Basilio | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 731 | 1,809 |
| Most in one year | 28 | 28 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 10 |
| Estimated living today | 100 | 1,200 |
| Median age today | 78 | 43 |
| Peak year | 1916 | 1990 |
| Best rank | 1,265th boys | 2,432nd boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 7,679th |
| First recorded | 1882 | 1904 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 731 | 0 / 1,809 |
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 Bascoms alive today are over 78; half the Basilios are over 43. That is 35 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.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Bascom and Basilio.