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Nahla vs Nahomi

American parents have registered 3,236 Nahlas since 1880, against 1,912 Nahomis. But in 2025 it was Nahomi that was commoner, 99 babies to 60.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Nahla against Nahomi, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Nahla Nahomi

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 39 years in which either name was published, Nahomi for 21 years and Nahla for 18 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Nahla Nahomi
Total US births 3,2361,912
Most in one year 306112
Babies in 2025 6099
Estimated living today 3,2001,900
Median age today 1111
Peak year 20112024
Best rank 861st girls1,796th girls
Rank in 2025 2,822nd1,942nd
First recorded 19771990
Girls / boys 3,236 / 01,912 / 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.

Where each one is strongest

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.

Country Nahla Nahomi
France 1,0355

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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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Nahla and Nahomi.