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Lariyah vs Larue

American parents have registered 5,520 Larues since 1880, against 904 Lariyahs. But in 2025 it was Lariyah that was commoner, 45 babies to 8.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lariyah against Larue, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lariyah Larue

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 127 years in which either name was published, Larue for 105 years and Lariyah for 22 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Lariyah Larue
Total US births 9045,520
Most in one year 72185
Babies in 2025 458
Estimated living today 9001,700
Median age today 971
Peak year 20101920
Best rank 2,538th girls590th girls
Rank in 2025 3,389th10,917th
First recorded 20041893
Girls / boys 904 / 03,980 / 1,540

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 Larues alive today are over 71; half the Lariyahs are over 9. That is 62 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: Lariyah and Larue.