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Schley vs Schuyler

American parents have registered 5,480 Schuylers since 1880, against 10 Schleys. Schuyler is still ahead, with 15 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Schley against Schuyler, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Schley Schuyler

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 129 years in which either name was published, Schuyler for 128 years and Schley for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Schley Schuyler
Total US births 105,480
Most in one year 10182
Babies in 2025 under 515
Estimated living today 4,700
Median age today 31
Peak year 18981993
Best rank 701st boys945th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked10,695th
First recorded 18981880
Girls / boys 0 / 101,314 / 4,166

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.

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