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Tijuan vs Tijuana

American parents have registered 1,338 Tijuanas since 1880, against 408 Tijuans. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tijuan against Tijuana, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tijuan Tijuana

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 60 years in which either name was published, Tijuana for 41 years and Tijuan for 19 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Tijuan Tijuana
Total US births 4081,338
Most in one year 1981
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 3901,200
Median age today 3253
Peak year 19741972
Best rank 2,199th boys1,263rd girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19731951
Girls / boys 0 / 4081,338 / 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 Tijuanas alive today are over 53; half the Tijuans are over 32. That is 21 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Compare something else

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