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Curlie vs Curry

American parents have registered 1,655 Currys since 1880, against 532 Curlies. Curry is still ahead, with 8 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Curlie against Curry, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Curlie Curry

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 116 years in which either name was published, Curry for 102 years and Curlie for 14 years. The lead changed hands 24 times.

18 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Curlie Curry
Total US births 5321,655
Most in one year 2334
Babies in 2025 under 58
Estimated living today 1501,100
Median age today 7846
Peak year 19261970
Best rank 2,076th girls1,546th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked8,910th
First recorded 19001896
Girls / boys 360 / 17285 / 1,570

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 Currys are over 46. That is 32 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 Curry.