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Felipe vs Feloniz

American parents have registered 31,958 Felipes since 1880, against 8 Felonizes. Felipe is still ahead, with 244 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Felipe Feloniz

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 1924, when Felipe had 124 and Feloniz had 8.

Side by side

  Felipe Feloniz
Total US births 31,9588
Most in one year 6068
Babies in 2025 244under 5
Estimated living today 26,0000
Median age today 31101
Peak year 20011924
Best rank 417th boys3,665th girls
Rank in 2025 955thunranked
First recorded 18801924
Girls / boys 133 / 31,8258 / 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 Felonizes alive today are over 101; half the Felipes are over 31. That is 70 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: Felipe and Feloniz.