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Sergio vs Serita

American parents have registered 82,233 Sergios since 1880, against 1,196 Seritas. Sergio is still ahead, with 714 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sergio against Serita, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sergio Serita

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

Sergio has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1913 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1935, when Sergio had 19 and Serita had 8.

Side by side

  Sergio Serita
Total US births 82,2331,196
Most in one year 2,26147
Babies in 2025 714under 5
Estimated living today 78,0001,100
Median age today 2851
Peak year 19951982
Best rank 158th boys2,150th girls
Rank in 2025 441stunranked
First recorded 19131935
Girls / boys 355 / 81,8781,196 / 0

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 Seritas alive today are over 51; half the Sergios are over 28. That is 23 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: Sergio and Serita.