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Eastin vs Easton

American parents have registered 80,441 Eastons since 1880, against 551 Eastins. Easton is still ahead, with 3,218 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Eastin against Easton, 1880 to 2025 0 1.5k 3k 4.5k 6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Eastin Easton

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

Easton has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1907 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1994, when Eastin had 5 and Easton had 127.

Side by side

  Eastin Easton
Total US births 55180,441
Most in one year 465,704
Babies in 2025 203,218
Estimated living today 55080,000
Median age today 119
Peak year 20142016
Best rank 2,622nd boys66th boys
Rank in 2025 4,857th110th
First recorded 19941907
Girls / boys 10 / 5411,001 / 79,440

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 Eastins alive today are over 11; half the Eastons are over 9. That is 2 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: Eastin and Easton.