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Midge vs Midgie

American parents have registered 805 Midges since 1880, against 30 Midgies. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Midge against Midgie, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Midge Midgie

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

Midge has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1916 to 1974. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1939, when Midge had 15 and Midgie had 10.

Side by side

  Midge Midgie
Total US births 80530
Most in one year 3110
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 51014
Median age today 7085
Peak year 19531939
Best rank 1,783rd girls2,736th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19161939
Girls / boys 805 / 030 / 0

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 Midgies alive today are over 85; half the Midges are over 70. That is 15 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: Midge and Midgie.