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Thiago vs Thielen

American parents have registered 35,233 Thiagos since 1880, against 119 Thielens. Thiago is still ahead, with 5,840 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Thiago Thielen

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 2019, when Thiago had 2,139 and Thielen had 34.

Side by side

  Thiago Thielen
Total US births 35,233119
Most in one year 5,84034
Babies in 2025 5,8407
Estimated living today 35,000120
Median age today 35
Peak year 20252019
Best rank 50th boys3,347th boys
Rank in 2025 50th9,714th
First recorded 19862018
Girls / boys 33 / 35,2000 / 119

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 Thielens alive today are over 5; half the Thiagos are over 3. That is 2 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.

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