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Majestic vs Majesty

American parents have registered 3,299 Majestys since 1880, against 504 Majestics. Majesty is still ahead, with 152 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Majestic Majesty

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 33 years in which either name was published, Majesty for 28 years and Majestic for 5 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Majestic Majesty
Total US births 5043,299
Most in one year 26318
Babies in 2025 13152
Estimated living today 5003,300
Median age today 156
Peak year 19962021
Best rank 5,280th girls1,002nd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,758th
First recorded 19931993
Girls / boys 277 / 2272,568 / 731

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 Majestics alive today are over 15; half the Majestys are over 6. That is 9 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: Majestic and Majesty.