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Tiofilo vs Tiona

American parents have registered 1,341 Tionas since 1880, against 51 Tiofilos. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tiofilo against Tiona, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tiofilo Tiona

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 59 years in which either name was published, Tiona for 51 years and Tiofilo for 8 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Tiofilo Tiona
Total US births 511,341
Most in one year 1174
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 91,300
Median age today 7830
Peak year 19301993
Best rank 2,444th boys1,898th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19261967
Girls / boys 0 / 511,341 / 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 Tiofilos alive today are over 78; half the Tionas are over 30. That is 48 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: Tiofilo and Tiona.