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Staci vs Stanislaw

American parents have registered 25,539 Stacis since 1880, against 489 Stanislaws. But in 2025 it was Stanislaw that was commoner, 9 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Staci against Stanislaw, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Staci Stanislaw

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 91 years in which either name was published, Staci for 68 years and Stanislaw for 23 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Staci Stanislaw
Total US births 25,539489
Most in one year 1,18433
Babies in 2025 under 59
Estimated living today 24,000250
Median age today 4818
Peak year 19711917
Best rank 250th girls1,175th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked8,243rd
First recorded 19501911
Girls / boys 25,480 / 590 / 489

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 Stacis alive today are over 48; half the Stanislaws are over 18. That is 30 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 Staci Stanislaw
England and Wales 13778
France 20735
Scotland 4596

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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Related comparisons

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