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Epiphany vs Epitacio

American parents have registered 791 Epiphanys since 1880, against 11 Epitacios. Epiphany is still ahead, with 6 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Epiphany Epitacio

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 41 years in which either name was published, Epiphany for 39 years and Epitacio for 2 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Epiphany Epitacio
Total US births 79111
Most in one year 556
Babies in 2025 6under 5
Estimated living today 7801
Median age today 2490
Peak year 19881929
Best rank 2,093rd girls3,559th boys
Rank in 2025 13,208thunranked
First recorded 19871929
Girls / boys 791 / 00 / 11

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 Epitacios alive today are over 90; half the Epiphanys are over 24. That is 66 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: Epiphany and Epitacio.