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Rinaldo vs Ringo

American parents have registered 722 Rinaldos since 1880, against 253 Ringos. But in 2025 it was Ringo that was commoner, 8 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rinaldo against Ringo, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rinaldo Ringo

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 91 years in which either name was published, Rinaldo for 64 years and Ringo for 27 years. The lead changed hands 11 times.

Side by side

  Rinaldo Ringo
Total US births 722253
Most in one year 2318
Babies in 2025 under 58
Estimated living today 290240
Median age today 5739
Peak year 19231965
Best rank 1,589th boys1,856th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked8,910th
First recorded 19121964
Girls / boys 0 / 7220 / 253

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 Rinaldos alive today are over 57; half the Ringos are over 39. That is 18 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Rinaldo Ringo
France 310350

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Rinaldo and Ringo.