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Nolberto vs Nolyn

American parents have registered 979 Nolyns since 1880, against 615 Nolbertos. Nolyn is still ahead, with 32 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Nolberto Nolyn

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 75 years in which either name was published, Nolberto for 51 years and Nolyn for 24 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Nolberto Nolyn
Total US births 615979
Most in one year 2067
Babies in 2025 under 532
Estimated living today 540970
Median age today 3310
Peak year 19922019
Best rank 3,220th boys2,491st boys
Rank in 2025 unranked5,045th
First recorded 19251998
Girls / boys 0 / 615177 / 802

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 Nolbertos alive today are over 33; half the Nolyns are over 10. That is 23 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: Nolberto and Nolyn.