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Hamdi vs Hampton

American parents have registered 5,039 Hamptons since 1880, against 530 Hamdis. Hampton is still ahead, with 162 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Hamdi against Hampton, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Hamdi Hampton

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

Hampton has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2002, when Hamdi had 20 and Hampton had 35.

Side by side

  Hamdi Hampton
Total US births 5305,039
Most in one year 31162
Babies in 2025 under 5162
Estimated living today 5303,300
Median age today 1516
Peak year 20162025
Best rank 5,284th girls1,443rd boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,443rd
First recorded 19881880
Girls / boys 396 / 134259 / 4,780

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.

Where each one is strongest

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.

Country Hamdi Hampton
England and Wales 1773

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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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Hamdi and Hampton.