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Naiari vs Naim

American parents have registered 2,697 Naims since 1880, against 506 Naiaris. But in 2025 it was Naiari that was commoner, 243 babies to 97.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Naiari Naim

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 53 years in which either name was published, Naim for 51 years and Naiari for 2 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Naiari Naim
Total US births 5062,697
Most in one year 243135
Babies in 2025 24397
Estimated living today 5102,600
Median age today 118
Peak year 20252023
Best rank 1,029th girls1,380th boys
Rank in 2025 1,029th1,688th
First recorded 20231973
Girls / boys 506 / 00 / 2,697

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 Naims alive today are over 18; half the Naiaris are over 1. That is 17 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: Naiari and Naim.