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Rumaldo vs Rumeal

American parents have registered 782 Rumaldos since 1880, against 73 Rumeals. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rumaldo against Rumeal, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rumaldo Rumeal

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 88 years in which either name was published, Rumaldo for 83 years and Rumeal for 5 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Rumaldo Rumeal
Total US births 78273
Most in one year 1725
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 50070
Median age today 5235
Peak year 19501989
Best rank 1,815th boys2,545th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19121989
Girls / boys 0 / 7820 / 73

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 Rumaldos alive today are over 52; half the Rumeals are over 35. That is 17 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: Rumaldo and Rumeal.