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Irania vs Irasema

American parents have registered 954 Irasemas since 1880, against 208 Iranias. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Irania Irasema

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, Irasema for 55 years and Irania for 4 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Irania Irasema
Total US births 208954
Most in one year 9140
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 210890
Median age today 2945
Peak year 19951996
Best rank 1,626th girls2,966th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19951953
Girls / boys 208 / 0954 / 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 Irasemas alive today are over 45; half the Iranias are over 29. That is 16 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: Irania and Irasema.