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Naiara vs Naida

American parents have registered 1,714 Naidas since 1880, against 549 Naiaras. But in 2025 it was Naiara that was commoner, 41 babies to 6.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Naiara against Naida, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Naiara Naida

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 114 years in which either name was published, Naida for 94 years and Naiara for 20 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Naiara Naida
Total US births 5491,714
Most in one year 4244
Babies in 2025 416
Estimated living today 550860
Median age today 851
Peak year 20231930
Best rank 3,640th girls1,117th girls
Rank in 2025 3,645th13,208th
First recorded 20031907
Girls / boys 549 / 01,714 / 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 Naidas alive today are over 51; half the Naiaras are over 8. That is 43 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Naiara Naida
France 35470
England and Wales 373

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: Naiara and Naida.