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Warnie vs Warrick

American parents have registered 782 Warricks since 1880, against 141 Warnies. Warrick is still ahead, with 12 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Warnie against Warrick, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Warnie Warrick

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 78 years in which either name was published, Warrick for 56 years and Warnie for 22 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Warnie Warrick
Total US births 141782
Most in one year 1228
Babies in 2025 under 512
Estimated living today 20730
Median age today 8118
Peak year 19162021
Best rank 2,259th boys3,814th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked6,803rd
First recorded 19161922
Girls / boys 0 / 1410 / 782

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 Warnies alive today are over 81; half the Warricks are over 18. That is 63 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: Warnie and Warrick.