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Saturnino vs Satya

American parents have registered 617 Satyas since 1880, against 601 Saturninos. Satya is still ahead, with 21 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Saturnino against Satya, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Saturnino Satya

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 100 years in which either name was published, Saturnino for 70 years and Satya for 30 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Saturnino Satya
Total US births 601617
Most in one year 1536
Babies in 2025 under 521
Estimated living today 340610
Median age today 4914
Peak year 19262012
Best rank 2,074th boys5,398th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked11,932nd
First recorded 19071974
Girls / boys 0 / 601385 / 232

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 Saturninos alive today are over 49; half the Satyas are over 14. That is 35 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Saturnino Satya
France 10465

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: Saturnino and Satya.