Felipe vs Felton
American parents have registered 31,958 Felipes since 1880, against 6,593 Feltons. Felipe is still ahead, with 244 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Felipe Felton
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 141 years in which either name was published, Felipe for 127 years and Felton for 14 years. The lead changed hands 18 times.
- 1880–1903 Felipe ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1914–1917 Felton ahead
- 1920–2025 Felipe ahead, apart from one short spell
14 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Felipe | Felton | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 31,958 | 6,593 |
| Most in one year | 606 | 128 |
| Babies in 2025 | 244 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 26,000 | 3,100 |
| Median age today | 31 | 61 |
| Peak year | 2001 | 1948 |
| Best rank | 417th boys | 592nd boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 955th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1888 |
| Girls / boys | 133 / 31,825 | 5 / 6,588 |
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 Feltons alive today are over 61; half the Felipes are over 31. That is 30 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Felipe New Mexico (5.1×), Texas (4.6×), California (3.0×)
- Felton Louisiana (16.9×), Georgia (11.4×), Alabama (3.5×)
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: Felipe and Felton.