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Solmayra vs Solomon

American parents have registered 38,080 Solomons since 1880, against 34 Solmayras. Solomon is still ahead, with 767 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Solmayra against Solomon, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Solmayra Solomon

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

Solomon 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 1993, when Solmayra had 25 and Solomon had 292.

Side by side

  Solmayra Solomon
Total US births 3438,080
Most in one year 25907
Babies in 2025 under 5767
Estimated living today 3028,000
Median age today 3219
Peak year 19932016
Best rank 4,100th girls367th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked422nd
First recorded 19931880
Girls / boys 34 / 011 / 38,069

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 Solmayras alive today are over 32; half the Solomons are over 19. That is 13 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: Solmayra and Solomon.