Fiona vs Fiore

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Fiona Fiore

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 108 years in which either name was published, Fiona for 77 years and Fiore for 31 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

• 1911–1942 Fiore ahead
• 1943–1944 Fiona ahead
• 1945–1948 Fiore ahead
• 1949–1954 Fiona ahead
• 1955 Fiore ahead
• 1956–2025 Fiona ahead

Side by side

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 Fiores alive today are over 64; half the Fionas are over 13. That is 51 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Fiona New Hampshire (2.4×), Massachusetts (2.3×), Washington (2.3×)
• Fiore New York (8.5×), Pennsylvania (4.8×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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