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Raymond vs Raymundo

American parents have registered 783,311 Raymonds since 1880, against 9,493 Raymundos. Raymond is still ahead, with 807 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Raymond against Raymundo, 1880 to 2025 0 4k 8k 12k 16k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Raymond Raymundo

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

Raymond has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2003, when Raymond had 2,057 and Raymundo had 200.

Side by side

  Raymond Raymundo
Total US births 783,3119,493
Most in one year 12,930235
Babies in 2025 80755
Estimated living today 359,0007,900
Median age today 6031
Peak year 19241994
Best rank 15th boys674th boys
Rank in 2025 394th2,451st
First recorded 18801912
Girls / boys 3,517 / 779,7940 / 9,493

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 Raymonds alive today are over 60; half the Raymundos are over 31. That is 29 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: Raymond and Raymundo.