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Curlie vs Curran

American parents have registered 1,188 Currans since 1880, against 532 Curlies. Curran is still ahead, with 7 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Curlie against Curran, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Curlie Curran

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 102 years in which either name was published, Curran for 53 years and Curlie for 49 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Curlie Curran
Total US births 5321,188
Most in one year 2356
Babies in 2025 under 57
Estimated living today 1501,100
Median age today 7827
Peak year 19261993
Best rank 2,076th girls1,601st boys
Rank in 2025 unranked9,714th
First recorded 19001916
Girls / boys 360 / 17230 / 1,158

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 Curlies alive today are over 78; half the Currans are over 27. That is 51 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: Curlie and Curran.