Nader vs Nadir

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Nader Nadir

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 62 years in which either name was published, Nader for 35 years and Nadir for 27 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

• 1963–1996 Nader ahead
• 1997–1998 Nadir ahead
• 1999 Nader ahead
• 2000–2001 Nadir ahead
• 2002 Nader ahead
• 2003–2025 Nadir ahead

Side by side

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 Naders alive today are over 33; half the Nadirs are over 20. That is 13 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Nader California (5.2×), Illinois (2.8×), New York (1.9×)
• Nadir New Jersey (14.2×), Pennsylvania (9.6×), New York (0.9×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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