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Guilford vs Guiseppe

American parents have registered 589 Guilfords since 1880, against 575 Guiseppes. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Guilford against Guiseppe, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Guilford Guiseppe

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 98 years in which either name was published, Guilford for 49 years and Guiseppe for 49 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Guilford Guiseppe
Total US births 589575
Most in one year 2224
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 120390
Median age today 7535
Peak year 19231990
Best rank 1,644th boys2,695th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18851911
Girls / boys 0 / 5890 / 575

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 Guiseppes are over 35. That is 40 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 Guiseppe.