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Rogan vs Rogelio

American parents have registered 25,942 Rogelios since 1880, against 2,451 Rogans. Rogelio is still ahead, with 180 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rogan against Rogelio, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rogan Rogelio

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

Rogelio has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1914 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2020, when Rogan had 166 and Rogelio had 213.

Side by side

  Rogan Rogelio
Total US births 2,45125,942
Most in one year 166548
Babies in 2025 80180
Estimated living today 2,40023,000
Median age today 1032
Peak year 20202005
Best rank 1,215th boys464th boys
Rank in 2025 2,006th1,159th
First recorded 19701914
Girls / boys 140 / 2,31165 / 25,877

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 Rogelios alive today are over 32; half the Rogans are over 10. That is 22 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: Rogan and Rogelio.