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Feliza vs Felton

American parents have registered 6,593 Feltons since 1880, against 128 Felizas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Feliza against Felton, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Feliza 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

Felton has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1888 to 2024. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2005, when Feliza had 7 and Felton had 9.

Side by side

  Feliza Felton
Total US births 1286,593
Most in one year 9128
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 1103,100
Median age today 4361
Peak year 19751948
Best rank 5,984th girls592nd boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19241888
Girls / boys 128 / 05 / 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 Felizas are over 43. That is 18 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: Feliza and Felton.