Ovid vs Ovie

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Ovid Ovie

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 92 years in which either name was published, Ovie for 53 years and Ovid for 39 years. The lead changed hands 34 times.

• 1895–1924 Ovie ahead, apart from 3 short spells
• 1925–1973 Ovid ahead, apart from 5 short spells
• 1995–2025 Ovie ahead

24 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

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 Ovids alive today are over 72; half the Ovies are over 11. That is 61 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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