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Heriberto vs Herrell

American parents have registered 10,282 Heribertos since 1880, against 13 Herrells. Heriberto is still ahead, with 40 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Heriberto Herrell

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

Heriberto has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1916 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1921, when Heriberto had 9 and Herrell had 8.

Side by side

  Heriberto Herrell
Total US births 10,28213
Most in one year 2498
Babies in 2025 40under 5
Estimated living today 9,2000
Median age today 34100
Peak year 19931921
Best rank 654th boys3,214th boys
Rank in 2025 3,036thunranked
First recorded 19161921
Girls / boys 16 / 10,2660 / 13

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 Herrells alive today are over 100; half the Heribertos are over 34. That is 66 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: Heriberto and Herrell.