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Filiberto vs Filip

American parents have registered 2,483 Filibertos since 1880, against 2,384 Filips. But in 2025 it was Filip that was commoner, 42 babies to 9.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Filiberto Filip

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 110 years in which either name was published, Filiberto for 85 years and Filip for 25 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Filiberto Filip
Total US births 2,4832,384
Most in one year 61127
Babies in 2025 942
Estimated living today 2,0002,300
Median age today 3415
Peak year 19922012
Best rank 1,490th boys1,336th boys
Rank in 2025 8,243rd2,941st
First recorded 19151953
Girls / boys 0 / 2,4830 / 2,384

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 Filibertos alive today are over 34; half the Filips are over 15. That is 19 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: Filiberto and Filip.