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Rogelio vs Rogene

American parents have registered 25,942 Rogelios since 1880, against 811 Rogenes. Rogelio is still ahead, with 180 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Rogelio Rogene

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 112 years in which either name was published, Rogelio for 111 years and Rogene for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Rogelio Rogene
Total US births 25,942811
Most in one year 54831
Babies in 2025 180under 5
Estimated living today 23,000330
Median age today 3276
Peak year 20051947
Best rank 464th boys1,722nd girls
Rank in 2025 1,159thunranked
First recorded 19141915
Girls / boys 65 / 25,877806 / 5

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 Rogenes alive today are over 76; half the Rogelios are over 32. That is 44 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: Rogelio and Rogene.