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Epifania vs Epiphany

American parents have registered 791 Epiphanys since 1880, against 485 Epifanias. Epiphany is still ahead, with 6 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Epifania Epiphany

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 84 years in which either name was published, Epifania for 45 years and Epiphany for 39 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Epifania Epiphany
Total US births 485791
Most in one year 2355
Babies in 2025 under 56
Estimated living today 130780
Median age today 6924
Peak year 19221988
Best rank 1,785th girls2,093rd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked13,208th
First recorded 18921987
Girls / boys 485 / 0791 / 0

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 Epifanias alive today are over 69; half the Epiphanys are over 24. That is 45 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: Epifania and Epiphany.