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Guilford vs Guinevere

American parents have registered 4,592 Guineveres since 1880, against 589 Guilfords. Guinevere is still ahead, with 295 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Guilford against Guinevere, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Guilford Guinevere

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 113 years in which either name was published, Guinevere for 72 years and Guilford for 41 years. The lead changed hands 15 times.

10 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Guilford Guinevere
Total US births 5894,592
Most in one year 22299
Babies in 2025 under 5295
Estimated living today 1204,200
Median age today 758
Peak year 19232022
Best rank 1,644th boys917th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked898th
First recorded 18851912
Girls / boys 0 / 5894,592 / 0

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 Guilfords alive today are over 75; half the Guineveres are over 8. That is 67 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: Guilford and Guinevere.