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Thiago vs Thibault

American parents have registered 35,233 Thiagos since 1880, against 29 Thibaults. Thiago is still ahead, with 5,840 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Thiago against Thibault, 1880 to 2025 0 1.5k 3k 4.5k 6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Thiago Thibault

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

Thiago has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1986 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1998, when Thiago had 9 and Thibault had 8.

Side by side

  Thiago Thibault
Total US births 35,23329
Most in one year 5,8408
Babies in 2025 5,840under 5
Estimated living today 35,00030
Median age today 319
Peak year 20251998
Best rank 50th boys6,843rd boys
Rank in 2025 50thunranked
First recorded 19861998
Girls / boys 33 / 35,2000 / 29

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 Thibaults alive today are over 19; half the Thiagos are over 3. That is 16 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Thiago Thibault
France 6,93555,895
Belgium 1,0983,608
Switzerland 691701
England and Wales 94375
Poland 682

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: Thiago and Thibault.