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Birdie vs Biridiana

American parents have registered 14,814 Birdies since 1880, against 533 Biridianas. Birdie is still ahead, with 422 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Birdie against Biridiana, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Birdie Biridiana

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 143 years in which either name was published, Birdie for 118 years and Biridiana for 25 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Birdie Biridiana
Total US births 14,814533
Most in one year 42251
Babies in 2025 422under 5
Estimated living today 4,400520
Median age today 628
Peak year 20251995
Best rank 670th girls2,486th girls
Rank in 2025 670thunranked
First recorded 18801983
Girls / boys 14,708 / 106533 / 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 Biridianas alive today are over 28; half the Birdies are over 6. That is 22 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: Birdie and Biridiana.