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Easten vs Eastyn

American parents have registered 1,896 Eastyns since 1880, against 640 Eastens. Eastyn is still ahead, with 93 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Easten against Eastyn, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Easten Eastyn

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 28 years in which either name was published, Eastyn for 21 years and Easten for 7 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Easten Eastyn
Total US births 6401,896
Most in one year 60135
Babies in 2025 2493
Estimated living today 6301,900
Median age today 108
Peak year 20172021
Best rank 2,217th boys1,841st boys
Rank in 2025 4,249th2,183rd
First recorded 19972001
Girls / boys 0 / 640757 / 1,139

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 Eastens alive today are over 10; half the Eastyns are over 8. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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