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Feliberto vs Felipe

American parents have registered 31,958 Felipes since 1880, against 174 Felibertos. Felipe is still ahead, with 244 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Feliberto against Felipe, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Feliberto Felipe

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

Felipe has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1917, when Feliberto had 9 and Felipe had 72.

Side by side

  Feliberto Felipe
Total US births 17431,958
Most in one year 9606
Babies in 2025 under 5244
Estimated living today 10026,000
Median age today 5431
Peak year 19172001
Best rank 2,732nd boys417th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked955th
First recorded 19171880
Girls / boys 0 / 174133 / 31,825

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 Felibertos alive today are over 54; half the Felipes are over 31. That is 23 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: Feliberto and Felipe.