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Epifanio vs Epiphany

American parents have registered 1,997 Epifanios since 1880, against 791 Epiphanys. Epifanio is still ahead, with 6 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Epifanio 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 117 years in which either name was published, Epifanio for 82 years and Epiphany for 35 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Epifanio Epiphany
Total US births 1,997791
Most in one year 4455
Babies in 2025 66
Estimated living today 1,100780
Median age today 4824
Peak year 19301988
Best rank 1,037th boys2,093rd girls
Rank in 2025 10,695th13,208th
First recorded 18851987
Girls / boys 0 / 1,997791 / 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 Epifanios alive today are over 48; half the Epiphanys are over 24. That is 24 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.

Compare something else

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