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Blossom vs Blouncie

American parents have registered 3,422 Blossoms since 1880, against 8 Blouncies. Blossom is still ahead, with 171 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Blossom Blouncie

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

Blossom has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1882 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1920, when Blossom had 62 and Blouncie had 8.

Side by side

  Blossom Blouncie
Total US births 3,4228
Most in one year 1718
Babies in 2025 171under 5
Estimated living today 1,9000
Median age today 15105
Peak year 20251920
Best rank 1,299th girls3,208th boys
Rank in 2025 1,299thunranked
First recorded 18821920
Girls / boys 3,422 / 00 / 8

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 Blouncies alive today are over 105; half the Blossoms are over 15. That is 90 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: Blossom and Blouncie.