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Easten vs Eastin

American parents have registered 640 Eastens since 1880, against 551 Eastins. Easten is still ahead, with 24 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Easten Eastin

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 31 years in which either name was published, Easten for 19 years and Eastin for 12 years. The lead changed hands 11 times.

Side by side

  Easten Eastin
Total US births 640551
Most in one year 6046
Babies in 2025 2420
Estimated living today 630550
Median age today 1011
Peak year 20172014
Best rank 2,217th boys2,622nd boys
Rank in 2025 4,249th4,857th
First recorded 19971994
Girls / boys 0 / 64010 / 541

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.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Easten and Eastin.