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Liba vs Librado

American parents have registered 1,303 Librados since 1880, against 1,051 Libas. But in 2025 it was Liba that was commoner, 67 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Liba against Librado, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Liba Librado

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 114 years in which either name was published, Librado for 85 years and Liba for 29 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Liba Librado
Total US births 1,0511,303
Most in one year 6722
Babies in 2025 67under 5
Estimated living today 1,000850
Median age today 1144
Peak year 20251946
Best rank 2,583rd girls1,509th boys
Rank in 2025 2,583rdunranked
First recorded 19561900
Girls / boys 1,051 / 00 / 1,303

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 Librados alive today are over 44; half the Libas are over 11. That is 33 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: Liba and Librado.