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Rolfe vs Rollin

American parents have registered 5,771 Rollins since 1880, against 543 Rolfes. Rollin is still ahead, with 13 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rolfe against Rollin, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rolfe Rollin

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

Rollin 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 1955, when Rolfe had 20 and Rollin had 53.

Side by side

  Rolfe Rollin
Total US births 5435,771
Most in one year 20137
Babies in 2025 under 513
Estimated living today 2202,200
Median age today 7159
Peak year 19551925
Best rank 1,725th boys525th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked6,446th
First recorded 19121880
Girls / boys 0 / 5430 / 5,771

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 Rolfes alive today are over 71; half the Rollins are over 59. That is 12 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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