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Froilan vs Froylan

American parents have registered 661 Froylans since 1880, against 525 Froilans. Froylan is still ahead, with 5 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Froilan against Froylan, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Froilan Froylan

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 62 years in which either name was published, Froylan for 38 years and Froilan for 24 years. The lead changed hands 11 times.

Side by side

  Froilan Froylan
Total US births 525661
Most in one year 1837
Babies in 2025 under 55
Estimated living today 500640
Median age today 2922
Peak year 19802007
Best rank 2,617th boys3,090th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked12,008th
First recorded 19391950
Girls / boys 0 / 5250 / 661

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 Froilans alive today are over 29; half the Froylans are over 22. That is 7 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: Froilan and Froylan.