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Eusebia vs Eustace

American parents have registered 705 Eustaces since 1880, against 333 Eusebias. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Eusebia against Eustace, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Eusebia Eustace

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 81 years in which either name was published, Eustace for 66 years and Eusebia for 15 years. The lead changed hands 24 times.

17 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Eusebia Eustace
Total US births 333705
Most in one year 1929
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 70240
Median age today 7645
Peak year 19251921
Best rank 2,018th girls1,390th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19061882
Girls / boys 333 / 00 / 705

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 Eusebias alive today are over 76; half the Eustaces are over 45. That is 31 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: Eusebia and Eustace.