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Cirildo vs Cirilo

American parents have registered 1,128 Cirilos since 1880, against 20 Cirildos. Cirilo is still ahead, with 6 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cirildo against Cirilo, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cirildo Cirilo

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

Cirilo has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1915 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1947, when Cirildo had 9 and Cirilo had 9.

Side by side

  Cirildo Cirilo
Total US births 201,128
Most in one year 926
Babies in 2025 under 56
Estimated living today 13820
Median age today 7634
Peak year 19472006
Best rank 2,671st boys3,782nd boys
Rank in 2025 unranked10,695th
First recorded 19471915
Girls / boys 0 / 200 / 1,128

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 Cirildos alive today are over 76; half the Cirilos are over 34. That is 42 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: Cirildo and Cirilo.